I thinks, that this is a question not of quick coding, but of losing valueable information about the structure of your data. You can compare some derivatives of the arrays if and only if that's a reversible derivative. Think of stringification of an array which could always be transformed back into the original array. You could e.g. escape all spaces in the array components and then join with spaces. This would yield a string which can be used for comparison. | [reply] |
No problemo. Actually, rather than using join(), I'd be tempted to do something like this:
{
local $" = "\0";
print "match" if "@a" eq "@b";
}
(not tested, may have typos).
andy. | [reply]
[d/l] |
And why do you think, that "\0" is not going to happen inside array contents? :)
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I just meant, if you knew it wouldn't. Like maybe you've validated the contents already.
andy.
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