look at the -strpos- function (among string functions). in your case
what you may need is
List [name of the variable] if strpos(x, "TAG") ~= 0
008/7/30, Daniel Sepulveda-Adams <[email protected]>:
> Thank you, now if I need all the subject that start with TAG
>
> Daniel A. Sepulveda Adams
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gabi Huiber
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:10 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: List command
>
> try =="TAGAMET"
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Sepulveda-Adams
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I know this is a basic question but I'm having problems to list a specific
> > element in a variable. The elements in the variables are drugs names,
> > therefore are string format.
> >
> > The command that I'm using is:
> >
> > List [name of the variable] if [name of the variable]==TAGAMET
> >
> > Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? or if there is other way to
> do
> > that? Thank your for your time.
> >
> > Best regards -- Daniel Sepulveda
> >
> >
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