From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2002-02-08T01:13:41+09:00
Subject: RE: shuffle (all possible sequences)

> > Here's a different solution that will only return true if
> > the two words have the exact same length and the
> > exact same letters:
> >
> > def consists_of? (other)
> >  a = self.split(//)
> >  b = other.split(//)
> >  a.sort == b.sort
> > end
> 
> Or, if you want to use the fabulous strbsrt extension available
> on RAA:
> 
>   require 'strbsrt'
>   class String
>     def consists_of?(other)
>       sort_bytes == other.sort_bytes
>     end
>   end
> 
> (Wow!  What genius contributed that extension? :-)
> 
> 

The same one I should have credited with my split/sort version (
ruby-talk:8152 ) :0)