If you don't like regexes, julia> a = ["apple","bear","ape","collar"] 4-element Array{ASCIIString,1}: "apple" "bear" "ape" "collar"
julia> filter(x->contains(x,"ap"),a) 2-element Array{ASCIIString,1}: "apple" "ape" julia> filter(x->contains(x,"ar"),a) 2-element Array{ASCIIString,1}: "bear" "collar" On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 11:52:34 AM UTC-8, Jason McConochie wrote: > > Is there grep for an Array of AbstractStrings? See code below > > > # A. Read a file into memory (nLines pre-determined) > > fID=open(fName) > > iLine=0; > > rLines=Array(ASCIIString,nLines); > > while !eof(fID) > > iLine+=1 > > rLines[iLine]=readline(fID) > > end > > > # B. Find all strings in rLines with "parameter" > > ???? Is something like this possible? > > indices=grep(rLines,r"parameter") > > > >