On 07/08/2019 20:10, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
I’m finally writing my new version of dependency calculation for database
variables, with a supposedly clever easy format fo entry and machine calculated
script.
I need to replace only exact true words, though. So I need to be able to take
an input string such as
...
I could make a list of all the truewords, and cycle through, moving any one
that is a substring of any other to the end, and repeatedly looping until the
list is empty. Ugly, but the least insane of the options I’ve come up with.
I know I haven't understood exactly what you want - so treat this
carefully ...
It's not difficult to "move any one that is a substring of any other" -
don't start searching for substrings or you get into an N**2 problem (or
worse). Just sort the strings 'descending by the number of chars in each'.
Alex.
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