How to put a brace on the right, not left, to group cases?

How can I get a brace on the right, not the left, to group cases, using cases? (I know actual cases look better with the brace on the left, but the items I need to group are not literally cases. They are a set of steps in an algorithm which I want to consider as an item.)

The following puts the brace on the left. All I need to do is to flip it to the right.

\begin{align}
\begin{cases}
a&=bbb\\
c&=ddddddd\\
e&=ffffffffff
\end{cases}
\end{align}


Thanks for any help with this!

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use package mathtools. There is also a drcases environment

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\begin{document}

$\begin{rcases*} E = m c^2 & foo \\ \int x-3\, dx & barbaz \end{rcases*} y=f(x)$

\end{document}

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Many thanks for this! Loading mathtools and changing cases to drcases works perfectly! – Harry Macpherson Mar 10 '12 at 21:14

With the help of the aligned environment from amsmath, you can define your own environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\newenvironment{rcases}
{\left.\begin{aligned}}
{\end{aligned}\right\rbrace}

\begin{document}

\begin{equation*}
\begin{rcases}
a &= b + c \\
d &= e + f + g \\
h &= i + j + k + l
\end{rcases}
\text{ three equations}
\end{equation*}

\end{document}


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Hi. What can I do to have the brace on the left instead? What changed should I make? Thanks. – Steeven Nov 11 '12 at 14:09
@Steeven in that case, you don't need anything special; you can use the cases environment from the amsmath package. – Gonzalo Medina Nov 13 '12 at 22:33

Maybe something like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}
\left.\begin{aligned} a&=bbb\\ c&=ddddddd\\ e&=ffffff \end{aligned}\right\} = stuff
\end{document}

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Did you read my answer? :-) – Gonzalo Medina Mar 10 '12 at 21:26
@Gonzalo yes I did now, you were faster than I. I saw your solution after having formatted my answer. Sorry. – Peter Breitfeld Mar 10 '12 at 21:29