fish-shell/sphinx_doc_src/cmds/string-replace.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 08eac28bd8 Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands
This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page
(string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after
each subcommand.  The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by
textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files.

Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of:

```
man string collect
man string-collect
string collect <press F1 or Alt-h>
string collect -h
```

While `string -h ...` still prints the full help.

Closes #5968
2019-11-07 09:54:25 +01:00

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string-replace - replace substrings
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Synopsis
--------
.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
::
string replace [(-a | --all)] [(-f | --filter)] [(-i | --ignore-case)] [(-r | --regex)] [(-q | --quiet)] PATTERN REPLACEMENT [STRING...]
.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
-----------
.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
``string replace`` is similar to ``string match`` but replaces non-overlapping matching substrings with a replacement string and prints the result. By default, PATTERN is treated as a literal substring to be matched.
If ``-r`` or ``--regex`` is given, PATTERN is interpreted as a Perl-compatible regular expression, and REPLACEMENT can contain C-style escape sequences like ``\t`` as well as references to capturing groups by number or name as ``$n`` or ``${n}``.
If you specify the ``-f`` or ``--filter`` flag then each input string is printed only if a replacement was done. This is useful where you would otherwise use this idiom: ``a_cmd | string match pattern | string replace pattern new_pattern``. You can instead just write ``a_cmd | string replace --filter pattern new_pattern``.
Exit status: 0 if at least one replacement was performed, or 1 otherwise.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
--------
.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
Replace Literal Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ string replace is was 'blue is my favorite'
blue was my favorite
>_ string replace 3rd last 1st 2nd 3rd
1st
2nd
last
>_ string replace -a ' ' _ 'spaces to underscores'
spaces_to_underscores
Replace Regex Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ string replace -r -a '[^\\d.]+' ' ' '0 one two 3.14 four 5x'
0 3.14 5
>_ string replace -r '(\\w+)\\s+(\\w+)' '$2 $1 $$' 'left right'
right left $
>_ string replace -r '\\s*newline\\s*' '\\n' 'put a newline here'
put a
here
.. END EXAMPLES