Re: extracting elements from a list?
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- Subject: [mg25384] Re: [mg25379] extracting elements from a list?
- From: "Rosa Ma. Seco" <ceie at prodigy.net.mx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:06:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I hope you won't find this too cryptic: In[1]:= a = {v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}; In[2]:= newlist = Extract[a,Position[StringTake[#,-6]=="Period"&/@(ToString/@a),True]] Out[2]= {v$2332Period,v$2334Period} Tomas Garza Mexico City Ryan VanRiper [mailto:ravanrip at yahoo.com] 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}