Replace function

The replace function is used to replace substring from a string.

The replace function support two syntaxes:

Replace raw string

To replace all the occurrences of a specific substring within a string, use: replace(<source> from <sub_string> to <new_string>) Where all arguments are strings.

Replace regular expressions

To replace all the matches of a regular expression within a string, use: replace(<source> pattern <pattern> to <new_string>) Where all arguments are strings. The regular expression syntax follow rust regex - see details in the Rust regex docs. You can also refer to the groups in the regular expression using a $n syntax.

For example:

findit -w 'content matches "[0-9]+"' -d '`path` -> `replace(content pattern "[0-9]+" to "<$1>")`'

Will add < and > around all the numbers.