I've got two strings of numbers, both containing a certain number of digits. Just for simplicity, lets assume that both variables contain four numbers. One variable has digits 1 through 4 in a specified order. The other variable has any digits 0 through 9. What is the best way to arrange the numbers in the second variable in accordance to the first variable? I'm sure that made no sense, so I'll try to make a visual representation using pretty tables :) 

$digits = 4;
$order = 4213;
$rearrangeme = 9876;

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4213
9876
Would Lead To..
17
28
36
49

7869 would be the final result.

After trying to acheive this with an elaborate series of split, s///, and substr, I spent about 2 hours trying to debug it, but to no avail. I'm sure theres probably some really simple way of doing this using a hash or something that I am just overlooking.

Thanks a lot for any help you could offer.

In reply to Rearranging Numbers by Anonymous Monk

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