On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: >> Colleagues >> >> R: 2.12.2 >> OS X >> >> I have a set of text objects in the form (I am showing 3 of what is more >> likely to be 20 or so): >> OBJECTS <- c("abcSOMETHINGCOMMONegf", "xSOMETHINGCOMMONyz", >> "SOMETHINGCOMMONnme") >> >> As you can see, all contain "SOMETHINGCOMMON" and the position varies. But, >> I don't know what that "SOMETHINGCOMMON" is. >> >> Is there an efficient means to find the common string of characters between >> all of the objects? >> > > See: > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-November/117379.html >
Also there is the libstree package on omegahat but when I just tried it it failed to build on my Windows Vista system. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.