Re^2: string comparison

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Seems like an overly complicated example. Isn't it just as simple as... ?

my $string1 = '~cake,pastry';
my $string2 = 'pastry,~caske';

if (sort_text($string1) eq sort_text($string2)) {
    print "match\n";
}
sub sort_text { join(',', sort split(/,/, $_[0]) ) }
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Re^3: string comparison by tphyahoo (Vicar) on May 27, 2005 at 10:02 UTC
Extending this logic a bit, and using <DATA> to read in the test data: `use strict; use warnings; my ($first_line, $current_line); while (<DATA>) { chomp; # get rid of newline # get the first line sorted if ($. == 1) { $first_line = join ",", sort( split /,/,); } else { #die if doesn't match the first line sorted. $current_line = join ",", sort( split /,/,); die "$_ didn't match first line" unless $current_line eq $firs +t_line; } } __DATA__ ~cake,pastry,donuts,meringue pastry,~cake,meringue,donuts meringue, donuts,pastry,~cake,meringue` [download] This dies on the third line, as it should.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: string comparison
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on May 27, 2005 at 10:02 UTC

use strict;
use warnings;
my ($first_line, $current_line);
while (<DATA>) {    
    chomp; # get rid of newline
    # get the first line sorted
    if ($. == 1) {
        $first_line = join ",", sort( split /,/,);    
    } else { #die if doesn't match the first line sorted.
        $current_line = join ",", sort( split /,/,);
        die "$_ didn't match first line" unless $current_line eq $firs
+t_line;
    }


}
__DATA__
~cake,pastry,donuts,meringue
pastry,~cake,meringue,donuts
meringue,
donuts,pastry,~cake,meringue
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