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Re: extracting elements from a list?

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• Subject: [mg25413] Re: [mg25379] extracting elements from a list?
• From: Christopher Lee French <clfrench at bellatlantic.net>
• Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 01:07:08 -0400 (EDT)
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{v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}
// Cases[#, s_Symbol /; StringMatchQ[SymbolName[s], "*Period"]] &

or

{v$2332Period, v$2334Period, v$1231MaxAccel}
//Select[#,(StringMatchQ[SymbolName[#], "*Period"]&)]&

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

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    • From: Ryan VanRiper <ravanrip@yahoo.com>