Compare parts of a string

[Felix Stips]

Dear statalists,

I wanted to keep this question separate from the last topic where it was about ordering. The second question is whether I can make a statement if one string contains at least the same words (irrespective of ordering) compared to another. I guess it is best explained with a table:

Name1	Name2
David Joe	David Joe Henry
David Joe	Joe David Henry

Then Name2 contains the same information as Name1, just more. Can I assert this with a function / if statement?

Thanks
Felix

[Felix Stips]

Also here, the

indexnot()

function works well enough. there is some manual checking to do, but I guess that appropiate for these vague associations.

[William Lisowski]

Perhaps you can adapt the code I showed in your previous post for comparing the strings for the same words to instead compare for a subset of words.