StringCases matching on portions of sublist?
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- Subject: [mg106646] StringCases matching on portions of sublist?
- From: Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:47:08 -0500 (EST)
Folk,
I'm trying to write a function to narrow down some data by timestamp but I'm
having some trouble getting this to work.
My data is a list of lists with the first member of each sublist being a
date stamp. I was hoping to use StringCases to match but I'm apparently
missing something here.
Example data is as follows:
z={{"Thu Nov 19 12:09:23 GMT 2009", 7492, 0,
0}, {"Thu Jan 07 13:48:21 GMT 2010", 9225, 3,
0}, {"Thu Dec 17 09:30:52 GMT 2009", 8735, 1, 0}}
I've tried the following:
StringCases[z, {"*Nov",___}]
which returns:
String or list of strings expected at position 1 in StringCases. This makes
sense to me.. so I tried:
StringCases[z[[All,1]], ___~~Nov~~___]
which returns:
{{"Thu Nov 19 12:09:23 GMT 2009"}, {}, {}}
How can this be modified to return the full sublist where the first element
of the sublist matches a string pattern?
-jbl