Interesting how this keeps coming up - it just so happens that I've been working on this class of problems recently. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @words = ("dog good", "food fodder");

TOP: for (@words){
    my ($first, $second) = split;

    for my $ltr (split //, $first){
        unless ($second =~ s/$ltr//){
            print "'$_' does not match.\n";
            next TOP;
        }
    }

    print "'$_' matches.\n";
}

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Running it produces the following: 

'dog good' matches.
'food fodder' does not match.

It gets much more interesting when the words are made up of cards that can be either one or two letters long... :)

In reply to Re: Word Comparison by oko1
in thread Word Comparison by rooneyl

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