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)
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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
>