R help - Sep 2008 - Using wildcards in subsets

Hi there,

I am looking for a way to use wildcards in a subset, this is not
working:


        subset(data,
colname-1=="value"&colname2=="value*",
        select=colx:coly)


is there a way to use wildcards here?

Thanks for your help,
Daniel

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