replacechar {cwhmisc}R Documentation

Replace a character in a string by another

Description

replacechar replaces a character in a string by another, deprecated!

Usage

replacechar(str, char = "_", newchar = ".")
# is gsub(char, newchar,str)

Arguments

str

The string to be altered.

char

The character to be replaced.

newchar

The character to replace with.

Value

The altered string.

Author(s)

Christian W. Hoffmann <christian@echoffmann.ch> adapted from tjoelker@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com (Rod Tjoelker 865-3197)

Examples

replacechar("my_queer_file,name") # "my.queer.file,name"
replacechar("my_queer_file,name","m","M") # "My.queer.file,naMe"

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