R/remove.R

In stringr: Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations

#' Remove matched patterns
#'
#' Remove matches, i.e. replace them with `""`.
#'
#' @inheritParams str_detect
#' @return A character vector the same length as `string`/`pattern`.
#' @seealso [str_replace()] for the underlying implementation.
#' @export
#' @examples
#' fruits <- c("one apple", "two pears", "three bananas")
#' str_remove(fruits, "[aeiou]")
#' str_remove_all(fruits, "[aeiou]")
str_remove <- function(string, pattern) {
  str_replace(string, pattern, "")
}

#' @export
#' @rdname str_remove
str_remove_all <- function(string, pattern) {
  str_replace_all(string, pattern, "")
}