perlquestion m2 binary Hiyas :) Here's the situation: I have many pairs of 2 strings that may (or may not) match each other from the beginning up to a certain point, then become different. What's the "best" (efficient, clean, etc) way of determining 1). the matching parts of the two strings 2). the part of each that's different? <BR>i.e. for: <code> $string1 = "the date is today"; $string2 = "the date is tomorrow"; </code> I want: <code> $matchingpart = "the date is to" $diff1 = "day" $diff2 = "morrow" </code> It isn't hard to iterate over the first string letter by letter and do comparison to the second, but it really seems like there should be a more... elegant solution. Any ideas? <BR> Regards, <BR>m2.