Re: String Deletion
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg121513] Re: String Deletion
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:10:44 -0400 (EDT)
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On 9/17/11 at 6:27 AM, donabc at comcast.net (Don) wrote:
>Given a simple list of strings:
>list = List["Z:XBREG","Z:XBREH","Z:XBREI","Z:ZZ6P","Z:ZZ6Q","aye"]
>how does one delete all the strings with a colon (:) anywhere in the
>string?
In[9]:= DeleteCases[list, _?(StringMatchQ[#, ___ ~~ ":" ~~ ___] &)]
Out[9]= {aye}