On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:11:24PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does R have a comparison operator similar to the Like function, for example:
> 
> a<-"Is a Fish"
> b<-"Fish"
> 
> if(b in a){c<-TRUE}

You probably want grep:

> a<-"Is a Fish"
> b<-"Fish"
> if (grep(b,a)) c<-TRUE
> c
[1] TRUE

Hth, Dirk 

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