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Re: Find Elements Containing "r"

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  • Subject: [mg42536] Re: [mg42520] Find Elements Containing "r"
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
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Something like this?

words = {ar1, ar2, ab1, ab2, rab, ab3};

StringJoin/@ Cases[#,{___,"r",___}]&@ (Characters/@ToString/@words)

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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis


On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 05:19  AM, Allan de Frates wrote:

> How do I find all the elements of a list that contain the letter "r" 
> or some
> other text pattern? For example, if the list is {ar1, ar2, ab1, ab2, 
> rab,
> ab3} and I wanted element matching "r", the result would be {ar1, ar2, 
> rab}.
> There has to be a simple way to do this, but I'm stumped.
>
> Allan de Frates
>
>
>
>


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