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Re: How to test for sameness on a string of numbersby CountZero (Bishop) |
on Mar 21, 2013 at 06:55 UTC ( [id://1024671]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
unpack the string into its three parts, sort the parts and join them again and test the so re-assembled strings. This is a general algorithm: transform variable data into their canonical form and check that.
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