using lapply is so great. That help me a lot.
thanks.
Stephen Tucker wrote:
>
> I think you are looking for paste().
>
> And you can replace your for loop with lapply(), which will apply regexpr
> to
> every element of 'mylist' (as the first argument, which is 'pattern').
> 'text'
> can be a vector also:
>
> mylist <- c("MN","NY","FL")
> lapply(paste(mylist,"$",sep=""),regexpr,text="Those from MN:")
>
>
>
> --- runner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I 'd like to match each member of a list to a target string, e.g.
>> ------------------------------
>> mylist=c("MN","NY","FL")
>> g=regexpr(mylist[1], "Those from MN:")
>> if (g>0)
>> {
>> "On list"
>> }
>> ------------------------------
>> My question is:
>>
>> How to add an end-of-string symbol '$' to the to-match string? so that
>> 'M'
>> won't match.
>>
>> Of course, "MN$" will work, but i want to use it in a loop; "mylist[i]"
>> is
>> what i need. I tried "mylist[1]$", but didn't work. So why it doesn't
>> extrapolate? How to do it?
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
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