Replace all occurences of a pattern in a file — str_replace_all_in_file • vvconverter

Replace all occurences of a pattern in a file

str_replace_all_in_file(
  file,
  pattern,
  replacement = "[...]",
  only_comments = TRUE,
  collapse = FALSE
)

Arguments

file: character, path of file to be modified
pattern: character, pattern to be replaced
replacement: character, replacement text
only_comments: logical, should the replacement only be done in comments
collapse: logical, should the lines be collapsed into a single line before replacement

Value

NULL, the file is modified in place