Substitute regular expressions in a string with another string. — re_substitutes • rex

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")
#> [1] "this is a not a test" "string"              
re_substitutes(string, "i", "x", global = TRUE)
#> [1] "thxs xs a Test" "strxng"        
re_substitutes(string, "(test)", "not a \\1", options = "insensitive")
#> [1] "this is a not a Test" "string"