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Re: Using Cases or Position to Find Strings in a List of Strings

From	Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Using Cases or Position to Find Strings in a List of Strings
Date	2011-06-07 12:13 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
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Hi,

> I have a list of strings called myListOfFilePaths and I want to find
> which one of those strings ends in ".DS_Store" (a hidden file created by
> the Mac OS).  I can pick it off using Select as
>
> 	Select[myListOfFilePaths, StringMatchQ[#, ___ ~~ ".DS_Store" ~~
> EndOfString]&]
>
> but I can't do it using Cases or Position
>
> 	Cases[myListOfFilePaths, ___ ~~ ".DS_Store" ~~ EndOfString]
>
> 	Position[myListOfFilePaths, ___ ~~ ".DS_Store" ~~ EndOfString]
>
> despite the fact that Head[___ ~~ ".DS_Store" ~~ EndOfString] is StringExpression.  What am I doing wrong?

you need StringCases if your pattern are StringExpressions. For Position 
the situation is more complicated, since StringPosition will return a 
list of the positions within each string, not just the position of the 
string within the list. But you can always do something like this:

Cases[myListOfFilePaths, _String?(StringMatchQ[#, ___ ~~ ".DS_Store" ~~ 
EndOfString]&), {1}]

Position[myListOfFilePaths, _String?(StringMatchQ[#, ___ ~~ ".DS_Store" 
~~ EndOfString] &), {1}]

hth,

albert

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Using Cases or Position to Find Strings in a List of Strings Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca> - 2011-06-07 10:48 +0000
  Re: Using Cases or Position to Find Strings in a List of Strings Albert Retey <awnl@gmx-topmail.de> - 2011-06-07 12:13 +0000

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