Have you considered "regexpr"?

> a<-"Is a Fish"
> b<-"Fish"
> regexpr(b, a)
[1] 6
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 4

hth. spencer graves

[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}

Michael R Howard
Micron Technology Inc. Boise ID.
Fab C Engineering Software (FCES)
Software Engineer

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