From: "Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T22:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: shuffle (all possible sequences)


"Chr. Rippel" <chr_news@gmx.net> wrote in
....
> class String
>   def consists_of? (other)
>     return false unless length == other.length
>     tmp = other
>     rep = ''
>     each_byte do |i|
>       return false unless tmp.sub!(i.chr,rep)
>     end
>     return true
>   end
> end

I guess it is worthwhile to point out that it is possible to turn
any of the sorting algorithms into a ``up to permutation comparison
algorithm'' - The above algorithm does this for bubble-sort but the
better ones like merge and qsort are (algorithmically) much faster
in recognizing  a ``!='' situation then completely sorting both 
strings.


/Christoph