stream editor — stream_editor • texor

R equivalent of GNU-sed

Usage

stream_editor(raw_lines, pattern, target, replacement)

Arguments

raw_lines: a vector of readLines from the file
pattern: a regex pattern to match
target: target string to be replaced
replacement: replacement string to be substituted

Value

raw_lines : modified vector of lines

Examples

example_string <- "\\target{} \\not_a_target{}"
texor::stream_editor(example_string,"\\s*\\\\target\\{\\}", "\\\\target", "\\\\hit")
#> Found  1 Matches for target : \\target
#> [1] "\\hit{} \\not_a_target{}"