string_replacements {DIZtools}

Clean string with a given set of replacements.

Description

This function provides the functionality to clean a string with a given set of replacements. This is e.g. useful to create filenames or paths that are not allowed to contain spaces.

Usage

string_replacements(
  input,
  replace_mapping = "default",
  tolower = FALSE,
  toupper = FALSE
)

Arguments

input

(string) The character string to be processed.

replace_mapping

(Optional, list, default = "default") The mapping containing what should be replaced with what: 'replace_mapping <- list("replace_this" = "with_this")'

tolower

(boolean, default = FALSE) Should the result be lowercase?

toupper

(boolean, default = FALSE) Should the result be uppercase?

Value

(String) All elements (names) of the input 'replace_mapping' or the default mapping are replaced by its values of the mapping.

Examples

string_replacements(input = "Ab 20. April 2020 (((___((N = 1.234)")
# Result: "Ab_20_April_2020_N_1234"