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Subject: comparing sequences that contain more than one of the same item
From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:57:20 +0000
 comparing sequences that contain more than one of the
A bit of a Friday challenge...

Is it possible to compare to sequences such that items in the sequence
are consumed after the comparison?

For example, I want to compare two words to see if one is a subset of the other.

"farmer" and "frame"

If you do:

string-to-codepoints('farmer')[not(. = string-to-codepoints('frame'))]

the result is empty because the two r's in farmer are both being
compared to the single r in frame.

Currently I've a got a recursive function that removes each letter
after a match, but I'm wondering if there's a one-liner or some other
set based approach?


thanks
-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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