#! /usr/bin/lua -- by Michael Anderson at -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8722620/comparing-two-index-tables-by-index-value-in-lua -- modified by Roger function recursive_compare(t1,t2) -- Use usual comparison first. if t1==t2 then return true end -- We only support non-default behavior for tables if (type(t1)~="table") then return false end -- They better have the same metatables local mt1 = getmetatable(t1) local mt2 = getmetatable(t2) if( not recursive_compare(mt1,mt2) ) then return false end -- Build list of all keys local kk = {} for k1, _ in pairs(t1) do kk[k1] = true end for k2, _ in pairs(t2) do kk[k2] = true end -- Check each key that exists in at least one table for _, k in ipairs(kk) do if (not recursive_compare(t1[k], t2[k])) then return false end end return true end function deepcopy(src) local dst = {} for k, v in pairs(src) do if type(v) == "table" then v = deepcopy(v) end dst[k] = v end return dst end function propersize(t) local l=0 for k,v in pairs(t) do l = l + 1 end return l end function word2set(word) local s = {} for c in string.gmatch(string.lower(word), "%a") do s[c] = true end return s end function registrationnumber(words, reg) local s = word2set(reg) local out = {} for _, w in ipairs(words) do local ss = deepcopy(s) for c, _ in pairs(word2set(w)) do if s[c] ~= nil then s[c] = nil if propersize(s) == 0 then table.insert(out, w) break end end end end return out end if recursive_compare(registrationnumber({"abc", "abcd", "bcd"}, "AB1 2CD"), {"abcd"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(registrationnumber({"job", "james", "bjorg"}, "007 JB"), {"job", "bjorg"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end io.write(" ") if recursive_compare(registrationnumber({"crack", "road", "rac"}, "C7 RA2"), {"crack", "rac"}) then io.write("Pass") else io.write("FAIL") end print("")