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How to coerce a string pattern to an ordinary pattern?

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Subject: [mg124344] How to coerce a string pattern to an ordinary pattern?
From: Andrew DeYoung <adeyoung at andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:28:19 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,

How do I coerce a string pattern to an ordinary pattern?  For example,
I might want to select those elements of a list that are pairs of
strings, where the first string matches the string pattern
"["~~___~~"]".

Thank you so much for your time.

Andrew DeYoung
Carnegie Mellon University

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