--bill lam wrote:
> Sherlock, Ric wrote:
> > My solutions as follows:
> > textend=: {:@$&.>@[ {."1&.> ]
> > pplinv textend pinv
> > +-------+------+
> > |Joan |Saxon |
> > +-------+------+
> >
> > pplinv tindexof pplinv textend pinv
> > 4
> >
>
> A potential gotcha is that text in pinv is longer than
> pplinv, your solution will trim pinv to shorter length but
> there should not be any match because pinv is longer than
> pplinv. Of course if it is known before hand that pinv must
> be shorter than pplinv, there will be no problem.
Very true!
This certainly makes Chris' suggestion a safer bet for the general case.
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