Can we replace a sentence or a word in a html

[vinayprakash808]

Hi all,

I have couple of file in html. I need replace certain words with another word. For example I have a word called "name". I need to replace them with "Names". Can we do this in one go in R? Please advice.

Actually, in the same file itself it should get replaced. Is it possible?

[Enno]

You can just use the tidyverse stringr package for this.

# read_html("path to your file")
# str_replace_all(string, pattern, replacement)
# write_html(x, "path to your file")
library("tidyverse")
path <- "/Users/Enno/Documents/htmlfile.html"
file <- read_html(path)
file <- str_replace_all(file, "name", "Names")
write_html(file, path)