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Your code appears to fail on '__8_3__19' and '84____7__', passing this as compatible when it should not be as the digit 8 appears in both strings in different positions.

It could be that in moving your function into my test script, I have broken it, but as your post doesn't contain a stand-alone testcase that I can run, I cannot verify this conjecture.

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In reply to Re^2: Comparison by position and value by BrowserUk
in thread Comparison by position and value by BrowserUk

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