[MarkLogic Dev General] Stumped on comparing string sequences

[Mike Sokolov]

Looks like a whitespace problem:

tokenize ("x, y, b, z", ",") => ("x", " y", " b", " z")

note the spaces before y, b, z.

-Mike

Jacob Meushaw wrote:
> I'm completely stumped on why something isn't working and hopefully I 
> haven't just missed something in the documentation.
>
> I want to determine if anything in Sequence A is in Sequence B where 
> Sequence A is generated by tokenizing a comma delimited string. This 
> only seems to work when the matching value is the first one returned 
> from fn:tokenize.
>
> Running my example below should do a much better job of explaining my 
> problem.
>
>
> <iThinkTheseShouldAllReturnTrue>
>     <shouldWorkButDoesnt> { fn:tokenize("x, y, b, z",",") = ("a", "b", 
> "c") } </shouldWorkButDoesnt>
>     <works> { ("x", "y", "b", "z") = ("a", "b", "c") } </works>
>     <alsoWorks> { fn:tokenize("b, x, y, z", ",") = ("a", "b", "c") } 
> </alsoWorks>
> </iThinkTheseShouldAllReturnTrue>
>
> =>
>
> <iThinkTheseShouldAllReturnTrue>
>     <shouldWorkButDoesnt>false</shouldWorkButDoesnt>
>     <works>true</works>
>     <alsoWorks>true</alsoWorks>
> </iThinkTheseShouldAllReturnTrue>
>
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jake
>
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