On 10/10/2010 04:11 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
length(matchPattern(fut_string, past_string)@start ) == 0

Wow, thanks a lot!
I am still testing this, but it looks like this is a good replacement for grepl. Definitely, since I am not a life scientist even from afar by training, this solution/analogy with sequencing in biology would have never come to my mind.
Cheers

Lorenzo

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