Re: string pattern search
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- Subject: [mg57362] Re: string pattern search
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 06:03:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Zak, Try regular expressions as for example:
str = "aiibbaecXXacarbiiicc"
StringCases[str, RegularExpression["a[^b]+b[^c]*c"], Overlaps -> All]
{aiibbaec, aecXXacarbiiic, acarbiiic, arbiiic}
StringCases[str,RegularExpression["a[^b]+b[^c]*c"]]
{aiibbaec,acarbiiic}
Cheers,
Brian
zak wrote:
> Hi
> how to search for the pattern "abc" in the string "aiibbaecXXacarbiiicc"
> and the letters space between a,b,c is not important, so the output will be:
> 1-when overlapping not allowed:
> {aiibbaec},{acarbiiic}
> 2-and when we consider overlapping:
> {aiibbaec},{aecXXacarbiiic},{acarbiiic},{arbiiic}
>
> regards