Dear all In the grep command below, is there a way to identify only "age" and not "age2"? In other words, I like to greb "age" and "age2" separately, one at a time. Thanks. x<-c("abc","def","rst","xyz","age","age2") x [1] "abc" "def" "rst" "xyz" "age" "age2" grep("age2",x) [1] 6 grep("age",x) # I need to grab "age" only, not "age2" [1] 5 6