[R] Partial comparison in string vector

[Moshe Olshansky]

Use grep("^e",x) if you are looking for the entries
where e is the first character.

--- Vladimir Eremeev <wl2776 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> seq(along=x) %in% grep("e",x)
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Powell-4 wrote:
> > 
> > I have a vector of strings
> > x=c("w","ex","ee")
> > And I want to get a logical vector showing the
> positions where my search
> > string "e" matches the elements partially, i.e. is
> at least the left-hand
> > part of the target strings, i.e. I want to get a
> vector FALSE TRUE TRUE.
> > 
> 
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