Re: extracting elements from a list?
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- Subject: [mg25397] Re: extracting elements from a list?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:06:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
with
lst={v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}
the command
Select[lst, StringMatchQ[ToString[#], "*Period*"] &]
will do it.
Regards
Jens
Ryan VanRiper wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a question about extracting particular elements in a list.
>
> 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}
>
> Thanks!
> Ryan