strsubst

substitute a character string by another in a character string.

Calling Sequence

string_out=strsubst(string_in,searchStr,replaceStr)
string_out=strsubst(string_in,searchStr,replaceStr,[flag])

Arguments

:string_in a matrix of character string. The strings where to search

occurrences of searchStr

: :searchStr A character string. The string to search in string. : :replaceStr A character string. The replacement string. : :str_out A matrix of character strings. The result of the

substitution on searchStr by replaceStr in string

: :flag string(“r” for regular expression) :

Description

strsubst replaces all occurrences of searchStr in string by replaceStr.

When using the forth parameters “r”, the searchStr should be a string of regular expression. And then strsubst is going to match it with string and replace according to the regular express 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