Re: extracting elements from a list?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg25389] Re: [mg25379] extracting elements from a list?
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:06:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 9/24/2000 4:42:11 PM, ravanrip at yahoo.com writes:
>If i have the list {v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}
>
>How would i go about searching through this list and returning a new
>list that has only elements with the word "Period" in them.
>
>So the answer im looking for using the above list would be:
>
>newlist = {v$2332Period, v$2334Period}
>
Select[{v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel},
StringMatchQ[ToString[#], "*Period*"] &]
{v$2332Period, v$2334Period}
Cases[{v$2332Period, v$2334Period,
v$1231MaxAccel}, _?(StringMatchQ[ToString[#], "*Period*"] &)] == %
True
Bob Hanlon