Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Indeed. gensub is just too sensible. While sub() & gsub() can do the same
> thing, their overwriting of the variable (as opposed to gensub()'s giving
> you the result) is really strange.

On the other hand, [g]sub() gives you the informating about
whether there was any match or not (returns number of replacements).
This might also be useful in some situations. Generally, I'd prefer
gensub() though :)

Jaromir
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