Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 01/12/2014 12:21 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>>>>> test("axbxc", "abc")
>> True
>>>>> test("abbxc", "abc")
>> False
>>
>> Is the second result desired?
>
> No -- the second should match -- you found a test case I didn't...
>
> def test(a,b):
> for ii in a:
> if ii not in b: a=a.replace(ii,"")
> while ii+ii in a: a=a.replace(ii+ii,ii)
> return b in a
>
> Show me another. :)
>>> def test(a,b):
... for ii in a:
... if ii not in b: a=a.replace(ii,"")
... while ii+ii in a: a=a.replace(ii+ii,ii)
... return b in a
...
>>> test("abac", "abc")
False
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