[R] Problem with the grep function

[Marc Mamin]

Hi,

you can use regular expression with grep. 

For example:

>exactmatch<-function(s,l){return(grep(paste('^',s,'$',sep=''),l))}

>t<-c('a','ab','abc','c','ca','ab')

> exactmatch('ab',t)
[1] 2 6

HTH

Marc



-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Petr Pikal
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:28 PM
To: aubert at inapg.fr; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Problem with the grep function


Hi

You can use  %in%

> nom%in%"b"
[1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE

which gives you a logical vector of exact matches

> (1:3)[nom%in%"b"]
[1] 2

or charmatch

> charmatch("b",nom)
[1] 2
> charmatch("ab",nom)
[1] 3

if you expect only one exact match.

But I expect someone can give you better answer.

Cheers
Petr

On 8 Jul 2004 at 9:20, aubert at inapg.fr wrote:

> Let me present to you my problem :
> 
> I have a character vector x and I would like to  obtain the indices of
> the elements of this vector that yielded exactly a match.
> 
> For example,  x=nom, pattern="b", I would to obtain 2 because "b" is
> on the second position.
> 
> First program :
> nom <- c("a","b","ab")
> grep("b",nom)
> 2 3
> 
> Then I try the option extended =FALSE (instead of TRUE by default) and
> I obtain '2 3' a second time.
> 
> Please can you help me : How can I obtain only 2 in using the grep
> function (without using the match function).
> 
> Thanks you
> 
> Julie AUBERT
> 
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