From: Clint Pidlubny <clint.pidlubny@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T07:26:24+09:00
Subject: compare to strings

Hello,

What is the best approach to searching a string for another string?

For instance, I have:

url1 = 'http://www.url.com'
url2 = 'http://www.url.com/page'

If part of url1 is in url2, like above, I'd like to declare it a
match. I'm sure this happens using a regular expression, but my
experience is limited with them.

The other problem is that I'm not going to be looking for just one
url1, but I have an entire database table full of those to compare to
an entire database table of url2.

Any thoughts on approaching this problem are appreciated.

Thanks
Clint