re_substitutes: Substitute regular expressions in a string with another...

In rex: Friendly Regular Expressions

Description

Substitute regular expressions in a string with another string.

Usage

re_substitutes(data, pattern, replacement, global = FALSE, options = NULL, ...)

Arguments

data	character vector to substitute
pattern	regular expression to match
replacement	replacement text to use
global	substitute all occurrences
options	option flags
...	options passed to sub or gsub

See Also

regexp Section "Perl-like Regular Expressions" for a discussion of the supported options

Examples

string <- c("this is a Test", "string")
re_substitutes(string, "test", "not a test", options = "insensitive")
re_substitutes(string, "i", "x", global = TRUE)
re_substitutes(string, "(test)", "not a \\1", options = "insensitive")

Example output

[1] "this is a not a test" "string"              
[1] "thxs xs a Test" "strxng"        
[1] "this is a not a Test" "string"              

rex documentation built on Nov. 26, 2021, 5:21 p.m.