Substitute Patterns in a Vector — d_sub • dtagger

Substitute patterns in a vector x with a given replacement, using base::sub for speed, by stringr format for convenience

Usage

d_sub(x, pattern, replacement, perl = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x: A vector.
pattern: The pattern to look for.
replacement: The replacement string.
perl: Logical value. If TRUE, pattern is a Perl-compatible regular expression. If FALSE, pattern is a POSIX basic regular expression.
...: Further arguments passed to sub.

Value

A vector with patterns replaced.

Examples

d_sub(x = c("abc", "def", "ghi"), pattern = "[a-z]{3}", replacement = "0")
#> [1] "0" "0" "0"