Dear Sébastien, Is this what you want?
which(myStr==headers) [1] 2 which(headers%in%myStr) [1] 2 HTH, Jorge On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Sébastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R-users, > > I need to dynamically recognize the index of a given string myStr in a > vector of string. The problem is that myStr might contain parenthesis, > causing grep not to recognize it the way I want (see below). The help > mentions that the pattern used by grep should be in the POSIX format... I > guess the problem is here; unfortunately, I am not familiar with the > subtleties of the POSIX format > > ex: > myStr <- "YD(001)" > headers <-c("TD", "YD(001)", "YD(002)", "T", "Y(001)", "Y(002)") > grep(myStr, headers) > > How should I modify my grep call to get the match right? > > Thank you for your help, > > Sebastien > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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