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

Synopsis

• Usage:

  select(p,s)

• Function: select
• Inputs:

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

  • a list, a list of nonoverlapping substrings of s matching the pattern p

Description

i1 : sort select("[[:alpha:]]+","Dog, cat, and deer.")

o1 = {and, cat, deer, Dog}

o1 : List

i2 : select("^.*$","asdf\nqwer\nqewr")

o2 = {asdf, qwer, qewr}

o2 : List

See also

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