If you want to only match names of length 6, you will have to use this pattern:
> x <- c("ZFHSJK", "ZFHJKZ","ZIOPWE","ZLKJSD","ZKFLPZ", "ZAAAAAAZ", "ZAZ",
+ "ZAAAAZAZ", "ZRITEZ")
> # match exactly values of length 6
> len6 <- "^Z[[:alpha:]]{4}Z$"
> grep(len6, x)
[1] 2 5 9
>
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Kang Min <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> On May 21, 7:09 am, David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 20, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Kang Min wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > I'm trying to subset a pattern in a vector. Each argument has 6
>> > letters, and I need those that start with Z and end with Z.
>>
>> > e.g.
>> > x <- c("ZFHSJK", "ZFHJKZ","ZIOPWE","ZLKJSD","ZKFLPZ")
>>
>> > I've looked up other discussions but still can't seem to find the
>> > answer.
>>
>> You may need to study the regex page a bit longer
>>
>> the "^" is the beginning of a string
>> ".+" will math can arbitrarily long string of anything
>> and "$" 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
>>
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>> David Winsemius, MD
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