here is something small you might like to try if halley's hash above proves too chunky for your ZX81.

the following will deposit the sorted subset in @uS; the memory consumued will be of the order of the size of elements in the unsorted list. so it will be kind to machines with less RAM.

if the unsorted list is short, the fact that the only a few grep's will be employed will make the solution reasonable in time too. 

my @S=("tilly","zaxo","sauog","enlil","castaway","wufnik");
my @U = ("castaway","zaxo","wufnik","enlil");

my %uS = map { $tmp = $_; $tmp => grep { $S[$_] =~ /^$tmp$/ } (0..$#S)
+ } @U;

@uS = sort { $uS{$a} <=> $uS{$b} } @U;
print join "\n", @uS;

[download]
which produces

zaxo

enlil

castaway

wufnik

from the unsorted list above. it freely admit it won't always be the fastest solution, but it will be kind, at least to those who like map & grep.

...wufnik

-- in the world of the mules there are no rules --

In reply to Re: sort an array according to another array by wufnik
in thread sort an array according to another array by glwtta

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