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Re: Unique List of Common Characters Between Two Strings

by sleepingsquirrel (Chaplain)
on Jan 11, 2005 at 22:38 UTC ( [id://421451]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Unique List of Common Characters Between Two Strings

Or, if you're a regex fan, you might like... 
sub In_Common2 
{
     my ($str1, $str2) = @_;
    (my $common = reverse $str2) =~ s/[^$str1]|(.)(?=.*\1)//g;

     return scalar reverse $common;
}

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