mhoward at micron.com 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} > How about ?regexpr: R> a="is a fish" R> b="fish" R> regexpr(b,a) [1] 6 attr(,"match.length") [1] 4 R> regexpr(b,a)>0 [1] TRUE R> b="Fish" R> regexpr(b,a)>0 [1] FALSE Note Regards, Sundar