Re: Quick SPlus Question on Regular Expressions..

[Chuck Cleland <ccleland@optonline.net>]

Santosh wrote:
> Quick question for the SPLUSians
> 
> Is there a way to substitute a pattern in a text string with another,
> like done using Perl?
> 
> regexpr would find the expression.but could not figure out the way to
> replace a pattern with another!
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your help!
> 
> Regards,
> Santosh

  I have Professional Edition Version 6.2.1, which has
substituteString().  For example:

> mystrings <- c("data1.TXT", "data2.tXt", "data3.txt")

> substituteString("[Tt][Xx][Tt]$", "dat", mystrings)
[1] "data1.dat" "data2.dat" "data3.dat"

?substituteString

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