What is the best way to delete strings in a string list that that match certain pattern?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Nov 6 16:58:31 EST 2009


Peng Yu wrote:

> Now, I want to in-place delete elements in A that matches the regex.

You can to this with a for-loop *IF YOU ITERATE BACKWARDS*.
It is O(n**2) in anycase.




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