Re: string pattern search
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- Subject: [mg57375] Re: string pattern search
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 04:31:19 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Zak,
see below.
Sincerely, DAniel
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}
StringCases["aiibbaecXXacarbiiicc", "a" ~~ Except["b"] ... ~~ "b" ~~
Except["c"] ... ~~ "c"]
> 2-and when we consider overlapping:
> {aiibbaec},{aecXXacarbiiic},{acarbiiic},{arbiiic}
StringCases["aiibbaecXXacarbiiicc", "a" ~~ Except["b"] ... ~~ "b" ~~ \
Except["c"] ... ~~ "c", Overlaps -> All]
>
> regards
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