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Replace the First Match of a Pattern from a String in R Programming – sub() Function

Last Updated : 05 Jun, 2020
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sub function in R Language is used to replace the first match of a pattern in a string. If there is a vector of string elements, then it will replace the first match of the pattern from all elements.
Syntax: sub(pattern, replacement, string, ignore.case=TRUE/FALSE) Parameters: pattern: string to be matched replacement: string for replacement string: String or String vector ignore.case: Boolean value for case-sensitive replacement
Example 1: Python3 1==
# R program to illustrate 
# the use of sub() function
 
# Create a string
x <- "Geeksforgeeks"
 
# Calling sub() function
sub("eek", "ood", x)
 
# Calling sub() with case-sensitivity
sub("gee", "Boo", x, ignore.case = FALSE)
 
# Calling sub() with case-insensitivity
sub("gee", "Boo", x, ignore.case = TRUE)
Output:
[1] "Goodsforgeeks"
[1] "GeeksforBooks"
[1] "Booksforgeeks"
Example 2: Python3 1==
# R program to illustrate 
# the use of sub() function
 
# Create a string
x <- c("Geekforgeek", "Geeksforgeeks", "geeksforGeeks")
 
# Calling sub() function
sub("Gee", "boo", x)
 
# Calling sub() with case-insensitivity
sub("Gee", "boo", x, ignore.case = TRUE)
Output:
[1] "bookforgeek"   "booksforgeeks" "geeksforbooks"
[1] "bookforgeek"   "booksforgeeks" "booksforGeeks"

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