Re: Comparing Two strings

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There is no such function. You would need to either write a routine that
came up with every possible combination of the given letters and compared
them to the string, or perhaps a different algorithm that counted the number
of occurrences or each letter in the string and returned true if they match.

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"Joseph" <Joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To give you more insight into what I'm trying to accomplish: If you are
> familiar with the word game "Jumble" that can be found in most newspapers,
I
> am trying to build a program that matches the scrambled letters against a
> list of words and finds a match.
>


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