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Re: Finds strings in a list that begin with "A"

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  • Subject: [mg82337] Re: Finds strings in a list that begin with "A"
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:45:55 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <ff4egn$d6p$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,


lst = {"And", "Bat", "Artistic", "Cob"};

Select[lst, StringMatchQ[#, "A*"] &]

??

Regards
   Jens

tomfabtastic at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to look through a list of strings and return all strings
> that start with an "A".
> 
> For example, my list could be :
> 
> {"And", "Bat", "Artistic", "Cob"} so I want to return {"And",
> "Artistic"}.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 


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