From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2012-04-26T08:38:10+09:00
Subject: Re: matching substrings


On Apr 25, 2012, at 14:38 , Brian Candler wrote:

> Then we can talk about how to put those steps into code. Actually 
> writing it down, rather than just thinking about it, *does* make a huge 
> difference.

Drawing it (in this case) makes an even bigger difference.

I'm thinking something simple like (needs monospace):


       ai
       |
       v
a = "abcdefghi"

       bi
       |
       v
b = "jklmnopqr"

then walk through each step you write from Brian's suggestion until you know it works.