str_replace doesn't replace all occurrences, but gsub does?

Question

I am trying to remove brackets from a string like the one below.

library(stringr)

x <- \"(Verhoeff,1937)\"

str_replace(string = x, pattern = \"(\\\\()|(         


        

Answer 1

It only matches the first occurency, whereas gsub does it all. Use str_replace_all instead:

str_replace(string = "aa", pattern = "a", replacement = "b") # only first

str_replace_all(string = "aa", pattern = "a", replacement = "b") # all