select(String,String,String) -- select substrings matching a regular expression from a string

Synopsis

• Usage:

  select(p,r,s)

• Function: select
• Inputs:

  • p, a string, a regular expression describing a pattern
  • r, a string, a replacement string
  • s, a string, a subject string to be searched
• Outputs:

  • a list, the list with one entry for each substring of s matching p, obtained from r by replacing each occurrence of a backslash and a digit by the string matching the corresponding parenthesized subexpression of p

Description

i1 : select("([a-z]+);","\\1","dog; cat, deer;")

o1 = {dog, deer}

o1 : List

See also

• select(String,String) -- select substrings matching a regular expression from a string
• regular expressions