Creating subset using selected columns

Hello R experts,
I need a help to create a subset file. I know with subset comand, its very
easy to select many different columns, or threshold. But here I have a bit
problem as in my data file is big. And I don't want to identify the column
numbers

or names manually. I am trying to find any way to automatise this.

For example I have a file with about 1500 columns from TRFLP intensity
data.

And the column names are like:
[1] "Sample.Name" "Marker" "RE" "Dye"
"Allele.1" "Size.1" "Height.1" "Peak.Area.1"
"Data.Point.1"
[10] "Allele.2" "Size.2" "Height.2" "Peak.Area.2"
"Data.Point.2" "Allele.3" "Size.3" "Height.3"
"Peak.Area.3"
[19] "Data.Point.3" "Allele.4" "Size.4" "Height.4"
"Peak.Area.4" "Data.Point.4" "Allele.5" "Size.5"
"Height.5"
[28] "Peak.Area.5" "Data.Point.5" "Allele.6" "Size.6"
"Height.6" "Peak.Area.6" "Data.Point.6" "Allele.7"
"Size.7"
[37] "Height.7" "Peak.Area.7" "Data.Point.7" "Allele.8"
"Size.8" "Height.8" "Peak.Area.8" "Data.Point.8"
"Allele.9"
[46] "Size.9" "Height.9" "Peak.Area.9" "Data.Point.9"
"Allele.10" "Size.10" "Height.10" "Peak.Area.10"
"Data.Point.10"
.....

Suppose I want to create a subset selecting all the columns with
name Peak.Area
(as in unix Peak.Area.*)
How can I do that in R?
Thanks a lot for the help.
Best wishes,
Mitra

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