Find and replace special characters

Find and replace special characters

Usage

en_replace_specials(x, pattern = "[^[:alnum:]]", repl = "_")

en_has_specials(x, pattern = "[^[:alnum:]]")

en_find_specials(x, pattern = "[^[:alnum:]]")

Arguments

x

character vector

pattern

regular expression pattern to match special characters

repl

replacement character

Value

character vector with special characters replaced

Functions

• en_has_specials(): Return TRUE if any element contains a special character.

• en_find_specials(): Return the match positions of special characters (via gregexpr()).

Examples

en_replace_specials(c("valid", "invalid!", "in-valid", "valid_1", "invalid.2"))
#> [1] "valid"     "invalid_"  "in_valid"  "valid_1"   "invalid_2"
en_replace_specials(c("valid", "invalid!"), "[\\.\\^\\$\\*\\+\\?\\!]", "_fixed")
#> [1] "valid"         "invalid_fixed"