[R] Partial comparison in string vector

Vladimir Eremeev wl2776 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 11:46:37 CEST 2007


Hi!

seq(along=x) %in% grep("e",x)



Steve Powell-4 wrote:
> 
> I have a vector of strings
> x=c("w","ex","ee")
> And I want to get a logical vector showing the positions where my search
> string "e" matches the elements partially, i.e. is at least the left-hand
> part of the target strings, i.e. I want to get a vector FALSE TRUE TRUE.
> 

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