Thanks Jeff. It works. If there is a good reference I should read
(besides ? grep) I's be glad to have it.
On 7/11/2022 9:30 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:> grep( "^(z|x)\\.", jj, value = TRUE )
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> or
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> grep( r"(^(z|x)\.)", jj, value = TRUE )
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> On July 10, 2022 6:08:45 PM PDT, "Steven T. Yen" <styen at
ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>> Dear, Below, jj contains character strings starting with ?z.? and ?x.?.
I want to grep all that contain either ?z.? or ?x.?. I had to grep ?z.? and ?x.?
separately and then tack the result together. Is there a convenient grep option
that would grep strings with either ?z.? or ?x.?. Thank you!
>>
>>> jj<-names(v$est); jj
>> ?[1] "z.one"???? "z.liberal" "z.conserv"
"z.dem"???? "z.rep" "z.realinc"
>> ?[7] "x.one"???? "x.liberal" "x.conserv"
"x.dem"???? "x.rep" "x.realinc"
>> [13] "mu1_1"???? "mu2_1"???? "rho"
>>> j1<-grep("z.",jj,value=TRUE); j1
>> [1] "z.one"???? "z.liberal" "z.conserv"
"z.dem"???? "z.rep" "z.realinc"
>>> j2<-grep("x.",jj,value=TRUE); j2
>> [1] "x.one"???? "x.liberal" "x.conserv"
"x.dem"???? "x.rep" "x.realinc"
>>> j<-c(j1,j2); j
>> ?[1] "z.one"???? "z.liberal" "z.conserv"
"z.dem"???? "z.rep" "z.realinc"
>> ?[7] "x.one"???? "x.liberal" "x.conserv"
"x.dem"???? "x.rep" "x.realinc"
>>
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