String replace multiple strings

String replace multiple strings in a vector.

Usage

str_replace_vec(string, replace)

Arguments

string

Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one.

replace

A character vector where the names are the patterns to look for and the values are the replacement values (c(pattern1 = replacement1))

Value

A character vector the same length as string/pattern/replacement.

Details

str_replace_vec() is a vectorized form of stringr::str_replace().

This is different from passing a named vector to stringr::str_replace_all, which performs multiple replacements but to all pattern matches in a string.

See also

stringr::str_replace() and stringr::str_replace_all()

Examples

fruits <- c("two apples", "nine pears")
str_replace_vec(fruits, c("two" = "three", "nine" = "ten"))
#> [1] "three apples" "ten pears"