return which pattern matched

[veda]

Hello R experts,

I have two strings like:
A1='stringishere'
A2='stre|st.*re'
I hope to make it to return 'st.*re' because A1 matches the second pattern in A2. Your suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks.

Best,
Veda

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library(stringr)
library(purrr)
#> Warning: package 'purrr' was built under R version 3.5.3
A1='stringishere'
A2='stre|st.*re'

Pieces <- str_split(A2, "\\|")[[1]]
Pieces[map_lgl(Pieces, grepl, A1)]
#> [1] "st.*re"

^{Created on 2019-06-02 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}