Replace in File

Function to replace a specific text string in a text file. Useful to manipulate GAMS sourcecode files.

Usage

manipulateFile(file, manipulations, perl = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

file

a connection object or a character string describing the file, that should be manipulated.

manipulations

A list of 2 element vectors, containing the search phrase as first element and the replace term as second element.

perl

usually set to TRUE so regular expressions in perl syntax (including backreferencing) can be used. If fixed = TRUE is specified in ..., perl is set to FALSE

...

Further options passed to gsub

See also

manipulateConfig

Author

Jan Philipp Dietrich

Examples

# manipulateFile("example.txt",list(c("bla","blub"),c("a","b")))