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Replace regular expressions in cypher

I can search for regular expressions in cypher

MATCH (n:model) WHERE n.name =~ '.*&.*;.*' RETURN n.name

but can i also replace them? I would like to write something like

MATCH (n:model) RETURN replace(n.name, ~'&.*;', '_');
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Cypher has a replace function , but it doesn't replace regular expressions, just plain strings. Maybe a feature request for replaceRegex

can be fulfilled?



A workaround would be to do this programmatically, after you return the names (if you are using cypher calls from another application).

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