Assuming that strings "match" if they have the same number of comma delimited words, the following will do the trick:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
my (%str1, %str2);
my $str1 = "~cake,pastry";
my $str2 = "pastry,~cake";

my @str1 = split(",", $str1);
my @str2 = split(",", $str2);

map { $str1{$_}++ } @str1;
map { $str2{$_}++ } @str2;

foreach $key (keys %str1) {
    print "not equal\n" if $str1{$key} != $str2{$key};
}

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In reply to Re: string comparison by davidj
in thread string comparison by Madam

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