How to replace a String with any pattern matches replaced

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how can we replace any string please suggest me any alternative function of replace ,replace function is not working through which we can get below eg output

  • Examples
    • replace(“aaabbbaa”, “a+”, “a”) returns “aba”
    • replace(“abbbccd”, “a.*c”, “”) returns “cd”
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Welcome to the community, @nid010! Could you also explain the use-case of this function? Have you used this before with KoBoToolbox or other data collection software previously? Could you show us some documents so that we could dig into it?

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Hi @Kal_Lam ,

I also need the same.
In CommCare we can use replace function.
https://help.commcarehq.org/display/commcarepublic/CommCare+Functions#CommCareFunctions-replace
Can we use this function in Kobo?

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Zeeshan Ahmad