ak.str.replace_slice
--------------------

.. py:module: ak.str.replace_slice

Defined in `awkward.operations.str.akstr_replace_slice <https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/blob/ecb41df1a0678f2c38387f6f91203f0122fd0906/src/awkward/operations/str/akstr_replace_slice.py>`__ on `line 13 <https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward/blob/ecb41df1a0678f2c38387f6f91203f0122fd0906/src/awkward/operations/str/akstr_replace_slice.py#L13>`__.

.. py:function:: ak.str.replace_slice(array, start, stop, replacement, *, highlevel=True, behavior=None, attrs=None)


    :param array: Array-like data (anything :py:obj:`ak.to_layout` recognizes).
    :param start: Index to start slicing at (inclusive).
    :type start: int
    :param stop: Index to stop slicing at (exclusive).
    :type stop: int
    :param replacement: What to replace the slice with.
    :type replacement: str or bytes
    :param highlevel: If True, return an :py:obj:`ak.Array`; otherwise, return
                  a low-level :py:obj:`ak.contents.Content` subclass.
    :type highlevel: bool
    :param behavior: Custom :py:obj:`ak.behavior` for the output array, if
                 high-level.
    :type behavior: None or dict
    :param attrs: Custom attributes for the output array, if
              high-level.
    :type attrs: None or dict

Replaces slices of any string or bytestring-valued data with ``replacement``
between ``start`` and ``stop`` indexes; ``start`` is inclusive and ``stop`` is
exclusive and both are 0-indexed.

For strings, ``start`` and ``stop`` are measured in Unicode characters; for
bytestrings, ``start`` and ``stop`` are measured in bytes.

The ``start``, ``stop``, and ``replacement`` are scalars; they cannot be
different for each string/bytestring in the sample.

Note: this function does not raise an error if the ``array`` does not
contain any string or bytestring data.

Requires the pyarrow library and calls
`pyarrow.compute.utf8_replace_slice <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.compute.utf8_replace_slice.html>`__
or
`pyarrow.compute.binary_replace_slice <https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/generated/pyarrow.compute.binary_replace_slice.html>`__
on strings and bytestrings, respectively.