replace_except: Replace Patterns While Protecting Exceptions

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Replace Patterns While Protecting Exceptions

Description

Replaces a provided pattern with another, while protecting exceptions. Exceptions can contain the given pattern, but won't be changed during replacement.

Usage

replace_except(vector, pattern, replacement, exceptions = NULL)

Arguments

vector	A vector containing the texts, where a pattern should be replaced.
pattern	The pattern that should be replaced.
replacement	The new pattern, which replaces the old one.
exceptions	A character vector containing exceptions, which should not be altered.

Value

Returns a vector with replaced pattern.

Examples

# Vector, where underscores hsould be replaced
underscores <- c("my_variable", "var_with_underscores", "var_sum", "var_pct_total")

# Extensions, where underscores shouldn't be replaced
extensions <- c("_sum", "_pct_group", "_pct_total", "_pct_value", "_pct", "_freq_g0",
                "_freq", "_mean", "_median", "_mode", "_min", "_max", "_first",
                "_last", "_p1", "_p2", "_p3", "_p4", "_p5", "_p6", "_p7", "_p8", "_p9",
                "sum_wgt", "_sd", "_variance", "_missing")

# Replace
new_vector <- underscores |> replace_except("_", ".", extensions)

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