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Word contains another word

Posted by Olli Salonen on 1999-09-05

Hello all!

I'm programming a program that makes anagrams, and I have to 
check if one word contains the letters of another.

Example:
I need to check if the word MICROSOFT contains the word FOOT.

Any idea how to do this fast? I currently have only simple for-
loops that go through both words letter by letter and compare 
them.

Thanks in advance,

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