I want to transform a string containing a + with different variants. One of them is removing the + and transforming the following letter to lowercase. Currently I do this in two steps. str = "Abdul+Hakim"; str2 = replace(str, r"\+(\p{Lu})" => lowercase); replace(str2, "+" => "") which results in "…

Use regex replacement strings

aplavin February 19, 2022, 8:15am 8

julia> replace(str, r"\+\p{Lu}" => x -> lowercase(x[2]))
"Abdulhakim"

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