Thanks! On May 21, 7:09 am, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > On May 20, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Kang Min wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I'm trying to subset a pattern in a vector. Each argument has 6 > > letters, and I need those that start with Z and end with Z. > > > e.g. > > x <- c("ZFHSJK", "ZFHJKZ","ZIOPWE","ZLKJSD","ZKFLPZ") > > > I've looked up other discussions but still can't seem to find the > > answer. > > You may need to study the regex page a bit longer > > the "^" is the beginning of a string > ".+" will math can arbitrarily long string of anything > and "$" indicates the end of a string > > > x <- c("ZFHSJK", "ZFHJKZ","ZIOPWE","ZLKJSD","ZKFLPZ") > > grep("^Z.+Z$", x) > [1] 2 5 > > grep("^Z.+Z$", x, value=TRUE) > [1] "ZFHJKZ" "ZKFLPZ" > > > > > Thanks. > > Kangmin > > > ______________________________________________ > > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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