Re: [R] String Matching

2016-02-01 Thread PIKAL Petr
gt; -Original Message- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Glenn > Schultz > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 6:02 PM > To: R Help R > Subject: [R] String Matching > > All, > > I have a file named as so 313929BL4FNMA2432.rds the user may

Re: [R] String Matching

2016-02-01 Thread Berend Hasselman
t six? > >> substr(id, nchar(id)-6, nchar(id))=="432.rds" > [1] TRUE >> > > Cheers > Petr > > >> -Original Message- >> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Glenn >> Schultz >> Sent: Friday, Ja

Re: [R] String Matching

2016-01-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 29/01/2016 12:02 PM, Glenn Schultz wrote: All, I have a file named as so 313929BL4FNMA2432.rds the user may pass either the first 9 character or the last six characters. I need to match the remainder of the file name using either the first nine or last six. I have read the help files fo

[R] String Matching

2016-01-29 Thread Glenn Schultz
All, I have a file named as so 313929BL4FNMA2432.rds  the user may pass either the first 9 character or the last six characters.  I need to match the remainder of the file name using either the first nine or last six.  I have read the help files for Regular Expression as used in R and I think

Re: [R] String Matching

2015-08-13 Thread MacQueen, Don
I haven't tested this, but what about: df <- data.frame(mtch=c(matchString, string1, string2)) grep(searchString, df$mtch, ignore.case=FALSE) Depending on what your next step is, you might prefer grepl. Sometimes using fixed=TRUE in grep() helps. -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore Na

Re: [R] String Matching

2015-08-12 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Kevin, It's not totally clear to me what the desired output is. grep(searchString, matchString, ignore.case=FALSE) told you that searchString is in the first element of matchString. Isn't that what you want to know? If not, perhaps you can be more specific about what the desired result is. B

[R] String Matching

2015-08-12 Thread Kevin Kowitski
Hey everyone,    I have been having an issue trying to find a specific string of text in a log of system messages.  I have tried to use pmatch, match, and some regular expressions but all to no avail.   I have a matrix / data.frame (either one, the file outputs a tens of thousands of rows wit