Lee Chuntao
> > I want to evalute if S1 is a substring of S2, for
> example, "str" is a
> > sbustring of "substring" . To my great disappointed, the
> match(s1,s2)
> > only works as the "==" operator. Can anyone help me?
Fred Wolfe
> Use the index function and test if index(S2,S1) == 0
I agree with Fred that this problem sounds more
like one for -index()-, but I do not understand
Lee's disappointment here. Either something matches a pattern,
or it doesn't. What else have you in mind?
Nick
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