Replace entire strings based on partial match

Question

New to R. Looking to replace the entire string if there is a partial match.

d = c(\"SDS0G2 Blue\", \"Blue SSC2CWA3\", \"Blue SA2M1GC\", \"SA5 Blue CSQ5\")
         


        

Answer 1

I'd suggest using grepl to find the indices and replace those indices with "Red":

d = c("SDS0G2 Blue", "Blue SSC2CWA3", "Blue SA2M1GC", "SA5 Blue CSQ5", "ABCDE")
d[grepl("Blue", d, ignore.case=FALSE)] <- "Red"
d
# [1] "Red"   "Red"   "Red"   "Red"   "ABCDE"