in reply to Testing if Two Arrays are Ordered in a Same Way

If all the elements of your arrays are single chars (as in your previous posts) then I think this would do the job. It does for the testcases provided:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @AR = qw(a b c); # First Case my @ar = qw(z a b c); # Second Case my @ar2 = qw(b a); my @ar3 = qw(a b); my @ar4 = qw(a b c); my @ar5 = qw(z a b c); print "First case\n"; # L R print test_ordered(\@ar,\@ar2),"\n"; # Answer:False(0) print test_ordered(\@ar,\@ar3),"\n"; # Answer:True(1) print test_ordered(\@ar,\@ar4),"\n"; # Answer:True(1) print test_ordered(\@ar,\@ar5),"\n"; # Answer:True(1) print "Second case\n"; print test_ordered(\@AR,\@ar2),"\n"; # Answer: False(0) print test_ordered(\@AR,\@ar3),"\n"; # Answer: True(1) print test_ordered(\@AR,\@ar4),"\n"; # Answer: True(1) sub test_ordered { my( $ar1, $ar2 ) = @_; my $re = join '.*?', @$ar2; $ar1 = join'', @$ar1; return $ar1 =~ $re ? 1 : 0; } __END__ P:\test>460234.pl First case 0 1 1 1 Second case 0 1 1

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