regex_replace Function
regex_replace
searches a given string for another given substring, and
replaces each occurrence with a given replacement string. The substring
argument can be a valid regular expression or a string.
regex_replace(string, substring, replacement)
substring
should not be wrapped in forward slashes, it is always treated as a
regular expression. The replacement
string can incorporate captured strings
from the input by using an $n
or ${n}
sequence, where n
is the index or
name of a capture group.
Examples
> regex_replace("hello world", "world", "everybody")hello everybody > regex_replace("hello world", "w.*d", "everybody")hello everybody > regex_replace("-ab-axxb-", "a(x*)b", "$1W")--- > regex_replace("-ab-axxb-", "a(x*)b", "${1}W")-W-xxW-
Related Functions
replace
searches a given string for another given substring, and replaces all occurrences with a given replacement string.