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## Substitute regular expressions in a string with another string.

### Description

Substitute regular expressions in a string with another string.

### Usage

    re_substitutes(data, pattern, replacement, global = FALSE, options = NULL,
      ...)

### Arguments

`data` | character vector to substitute
`pattern` | regular expression to match
`replacement` | replacement text to use
`global` | substitute all occurrences
`options` | option flags
`...` | options passed to sub or gsub

### See Also

`regexp` Section "Perl-like Regular Expressions" for a discussion of the supported options

### Examples

    string <- c("this is a Test", "string")
    re_substitutes(string, "test", "not a test", options = "insensitive")
    re_substitutes(string, "i", "x", global = TRUE)
    re_substitutes(string, "(test)", "not a \\1", options = "insensitive")

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