gsubAll: Pattern matching and replacement

In eatTools: Miscellaneous Functions for the Analysis of Educational Assessments

Pattern matching and replacement

Description

Function is a wrapper for gsub() which allows to replace more than one pattern.

Usage

gsubAll ( string, old, new)

Arguments

string	a character vector where matches are sought
old	character vector containing strings to be matched in the given character vector named string.
new	a replacement for matched pattern

Value

character vector with replaced patterns

Author(s)

Benjamin Becker

Examples

### replace all numbers by words
txt <- "1 example for 2 reasons in 4 seasons"
gsubAll ( txt, old = as.character(1:4), new = c("one", "two", "three", "four"))

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