# Use regex replacement strings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-regex-replacement-strings/76729>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** regex\
**Created:** [February 19, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/use-regex-replacement-strings/76729 "2022-02-19T06:53:14Z")\
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```julia
julia> replace(str, r"\+\p{Lu}" => x -> lowercase(x[2]))
"Abdulhakim"

```

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