manipulate list in mathematica with select

Question

I have imported some data into Mathematica. The data will look similar to

{{0,2},{2,3},{4,3},{5,4},{8,4}}

I want to throw out all elements for which the x-values are smaller than a given value or create a new list that contains the data for which the x-values are larger than this value. I assume that Select should do the job but I don't know how.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

How about

 data = {{0,2},{2,3},{4,3},{5,4},{8,4}};
 filtered = Select[data, First[#]>3&];

where you replace 3 with your given value?