Re: substrings at the end of words
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- Subject: [mg54987] Re: substrings at the end of words
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:34:14 -0500 (EST)
- References: <d0ju4u$n1m$1@smc.vnet.net>
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Hello the magic word EndOfString will do the trick. a = {"edit", "listed", "called", "wedding"} StringCases[a, _ ~~ "ed" ~~ EndOfString] {{}, {ted}, {led}, {}} Sincerely, Daniel fartous at mail15.com wrote: > a = {"edit", "listed", "called", "wedding"} > StringCases[a, _ ~~ "ed"] > Out[]= {{}, {ted}, {led}, {wed}} > i want to extract only the "ed" string which located only at the end of the > words, i could not do that using the above code. > thanks > jack >