stream_editor {texor}

stream editor

Description

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")