Re: How to get position of string in a mixed list? (string pattern in
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- Subject: [mg96208] Re: How to get position of string in a mixed list? (string pattern in
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:35:40 -0500 (EST)
- References: <gmndli$s1k$1@smc.vnet.net>
Position[{"a", "abc", "dfe", "nab", 1, 2, 3, {1, 2}} ,
x_ /; StringQ[x] && StringMatchQ[x, ___ ~~ "ab" ~~ ___]]
should do the trick.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Feb 8, 10:00 pm, "goodh... at gmail.com" <goodh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> for list like {"a","abc","dfe","nab",1,2,3,{1,2}}, I want to get all
> strings' position in the list which match a pattern (like
> ___~~"ab"~~___). How to do it? How to use a string pattern in a list
> pattern? how to use a pattern with a condition (both list pattern&/;
> StringQ[#] and list pattern /;StringQ[]&, no working for me)
>
> Thanks.