Re: [LUG] comma separated value string comparisons

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> $string1 = "PHP, XML, GnuPG, standards, design";
> $string2 = "C++, Perl, PHP, networking, security";
> 
> So $string1 should give a match with $string2.

Split the first one into a list and put it in a hash, keyed by word
with a value of 1 or true or soemthing.

Then split the second on and pile through it. If you get a match in
the hash you've got a match.

I'd not want to try and do the exmaple in PHP, but I could do it in
perl. 

Steve



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