sub和gsub函数的区别学习

> text <- c("we are the world", "we are the children")
> sub("w", "W", text)
[1] "We are the world"    "We are the children"
> sub("W","w",text)
[1] "we are the world"    "we are the children"
> gsub("W","w",text)
[1] "we are the world"    "we are the children"
> gsub("w","W",text)
[1] "We are the World"    "We are the children"
 
> sub(" ", "", "abc def ghi")
[1] "abcdef ghi"
> ## [1] "abcdef ghi"
> gsub(" ", "", "abc def ghi")
[1] "abcdefghi"
> ## [1] "abcdefghi"
 

从上面的输出结果可以看出，sub（）和gsub（）的区别在于，前者只替换第一次匹配的字符串，而后者会替换掉所有匹配的字符串。

与之相似的还有grep函数，但grep函数返回的是下标位置。