strsubst

Arguments

string_in

a matrix of character strings. The strings where to search occurrences of searchStr.

searchStr

a character string. The string to search in string_in.

replaceStr

a character string. The replacement string.

string_out

a matrix of character strings. The result of the substitution on searchStr by replaceStr in string_in.

flag

a character ("r" for regular expression).

Description

The strsubst function replaces all occurrences of searchStr in string_in by replaceStr.

When using the forth parameter "r", the searchStr should be a string of regular expression. And then strsubst is going to match it with string_in and replace according to the regular expression rules.

Examples

strsubst('SCI/demos/scicos','SCI','.')
strsubst('SCI/demos/scicos','/',' ')
strsubst('2' ,'/2(]*)?$\1/' ,'0','r')

See Also

• string — conversion to string
• strings — Scilab Object, character strings