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...n I did not find it). Since "ls" with argument pattern essentially uses "grep" (if I am not mistaken), I have an example for "grep" text<-c("somethigMYsomthing elseTARGET another thing","MY somthing TARGET another thing","somethig somthing elseTARGETMY another thing","somethigMTARGETY another thing") grep(pattern="MY&TARGET", x=text) #I would like to get 1 2 3 and not 4 or actually their names using text[grep(pattern="MY&TARGET", x=text)] #of course, the "pattern" in this case is wrong I kno...