Re: Find Elements Containing "r"
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- Subject: [mg42536] Re: [mg42520] Find Elements Containing "r"
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:53:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Something like this?
words = {ar1, ar2, ab1, ab2, rab, ab3};
StringJoin/@ Cases[#,{___,"r",___}]&@ (Characters/@ToString/@words)
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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 05:19 AM, Allan de Frates wrote:
> How do I find all the elements of a list that contain the letter "r"
> or some
> other text pattern? For example, if the list is {ar1, ar2, ab1, ab2,
> rab,
> ab3} and I wanted element matching "r", the result would be {ar1, ar2,
> rab}.
> There has to be a simple way to do this, but I'm stumped.
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> Allan de Frates
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