[BioC] how to match a regular expression to XString, XStringViews or MaskedXString object

[Harris A. Jaffee]

Perhaps gregexpr or one of these, found with help.search("regex"):

Biostrings::gregexpr2   A replacement for R standard gregexpr function
base::grep              Pattern Matching and Replacement
base::regex             Regular Expressions as used in R
base::.standard_regexps
                         Miscellaneous Internal/Programming Utilities
utils::aregexec         Approximate String Match Positions

On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:31 PM, wang peter wrote:

> hello all
> i know matchPattern can match a string to XString, XStringViews or
> MaskedXString object
> but not allow regular expression
> do you know which function can support regular expression match
> thx
>
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