BrowserUk,
I believe you have the requirements spot on. I agree it wasn't much of a "challenge" but I like to keep such posts similarly named for searching purposes later. When blokhead first described the problem he was mentioning possibly using suffix trees and other doodads which made me wonder how other people would approach it.

Update: The number of matches came as a big suprise to blokhead so I like the way you consolidated results. The reason I limited the matching to a single input was because of the enormous amount of output when doing all possible matches as blokhead first asked for though I coded it to find all matches. Would your approach have changed if you were doing all matches not just one for the input provided?

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Challenge: prefix($x, $y) . suffix($x, $z) eq $x by Limbic~Region
in thread Challenge: prefix($x, $y) . suffix($x, $z) eq $x by Limbic~Region

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