salutations, we are not sure on how to explain it, but, suppose we have a string without spaces, which is a succession of words, for example: "cowboycatdog", and we looped through all the possible fragments of the words, checking its existence in an indexed dictionary. then, it returns an array with all the existing fragments of the string: 
cow
cowboy
boy
cat
do
dog

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notice that every word here exists. we already have the algorithm to do all that, but here is the doubt: how can we combine the items of the newly generated array in order to form the string "cowboycatdog" again? for example: 
cow-boy-cat-dog
cowboy-cat-dog

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would be the possible segmentations of this string, based on that array. the segmentation "cow-boy-cat-do-g", for example, wouldn't exist, because there is no word "g" in the array. (this is just a small example: the string and the fragments meaning anything could be much bigger). does anyone have any idea on how to to this? thank you in advance.

In reply to combining array items to match a certain string by pc2

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