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Filtering Strings

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• Subject: [mg65486] Filtering Strings
• From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
• Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 06:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello Everyone,

I have a 2,922 x 7 matrix called X.  If I want to extract all rows  
where the string in the second column beings with "INC", the  
following works fine:

	Select[X, StringMatchQ[#[[2]], "INC"~~__] &];

But I was wondering neither of these two work.

	Select[X, #[[2]]=="INC"~~__ &]

	Select[X,StringCases[#[[2]],"^INC"~~__] &]

Any advice would be most appreciated.

	Greg