R extract string from data.table column

Question

This post is a continuation from R search subset string from data.table column for Capitalized words I need to add more conditions into this. A Sample Data.tabel would be

dt <- data.table(Msg= c("SOMENote: THIS_IS_IMPORTANT Rest of Message",
                       "SOMENote: THIS-IS Not Important. THIS_IS Rest of Message",
                       "SOMENote: no_string_here.. THIS_IS_IMPORTANT Rest of Message",
                       "SOMENote: THIS_HAS_110KV_Numbers. Rest of Message"))
output <- c("THIS_IS_IMPORTANT",
            "THIS_IS",
            "THIS_IS_IMPORTANT",
            "THIS_HAS_110KV_Numbers")

I want to Extract From the Message the string in the form THIS_IS_IMPORTANT which can appear anywhere in the Message after "SOMENote:" .
The format also has numbers in some rows, like THIS_100L_HAS_NUMBERS .
In general, the Capitalized words with underscore between.

Answer 1

You can use sub , regexpr with regmatches to extract the hit:

y <- sub(".*:[^A-Z]*", "", x) #Remove eveything until : and not A-Z
regmatches(y, regexpr("[A-Z0-9]+_\\w*", y))
[1] "THIS_IS_IMPORTANT"      "THIS_IS"                "THIS_IS_IMPORTANT"     
[4] "THIS_HAS_110KV_Numbers"

Data:

x <- c("SOMENote: THIS_IS_IMPORTANT Rest of Message",
       "SOMENote: THIS-IS Not Important. THIS_IS Rest of Message",
       "SOMENote: no_string_here.. THIS_IS_IMPORTANT Rest of Message",
       "SOMENote: THIS_HAS_110KV_Numbers. Rest of Message")