Re: [LUG] comma separated value string comparisons

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday 10 July 2003 00:14, Neil Williams wrote:
> What's the best way to compare two strings, each containing comma
> separated values, to see if ANY of the values in the first string match
> any of the values in the second string?
for
> e.g.
> $string1 = "PHP, XML, GnuPG, standards, design";
> $string2 = "C++, Perl, PHP, networking, security";
>
> So $string1 should give a match with $string2.

Ok, this is not a very serious attempt - but...

tony@xxxxxx:~> python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 17 2003, 15:17:58)
[GCC 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> string1="PHP,XML,GnuPG,standards,design"
>>> string2="C++,Perl,PHP,networking,security"
>>> s1 = string1.split(",")
>>> s2 = string2.split(",")
>>> for s in s1:
...     if s in s2: print "Match on %s" % s
...
Match on PHP
>>>

Tony
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