Re: extracting elements from a list?
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- Subject: [mg25410] Re: extracting elements from a list?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:07:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Ryan,
Select[{v$2332Period, v$2334Period,
v$1231MaxAccel}, (StringPosition[ToString[#], "Period"] =!= {} &)]
{v$2332Period, v$2334Period}
Allan
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"Ryan VanRiper" <ravanrip at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8qlon6$q8a at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi, I have a question about extracting particular elements in a list.
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> If i have the list {v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}
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> How would i go about searching through this list and returning a new
> list that has only elements with the word "Period" in them.
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> So the answer im looking for using the above list would be:
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> newlist = {v$2332Period, v$2334Period}
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> Thanks!
> Ryan
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