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Replace matches with a pattern

Source: R/replace.R
str_replace.Rd

Replace matches with a pattern

Usage

str_replace(string, pattern, replacement)

str_replace_all(string, pattern, replacement)

Arguments

string

Character vector of strings.

pattern

A pattern to match. Can be:

  • A single string or regex(), to use POSIX 1003.2 extended regular expression.

  • fixed() to use a fixed/literal matchi.

  • perl() to use a Perl-compatible regular expression.

Unlike stringr, pattern must be length 1; it will not be recycled to the same length as string.

replacement

A string given replace. References of the form \1, \2, etc will be replaced with the contents of the respective matched group (created by ()).