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I have a list of graph edges. E.g.

{"woods" <-> "woody", "aback" <-> "alack", "tummy" <-> "yummy", "tumor" <-> "tutor"}

How can I compare the vertices to extract the same letters?

Coming from another programming language, I know how to do this using a nested loop and by comparing the characters, but this seems remarkably inappropriate.

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  • $\begingroup$ What do you mean by extract the same letter? Can you give us a desired output? $\endgroup$
    – Wjx
    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:04
  • $\begingroup$ Please describe more precisely how comparing should be done, what is the expected result and assumed input (sam lenght? etc) $\endgroup$
    – Kuba ♦
    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:05
  • $\begingroup$ @Wjx, desired output for the following example is {"wood", "aack", "ummy", "tuor"} $\endgroup$
    – eliott
    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:07

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One liner:

LongestCommonSequence @@@ {"woods" <-> "woody", "aback" <-> "alack", "tummy" <-> "yummy", "tumor" <-> "tutor"}

{"wood", "aack", "ummy", "tuor"}

LongestCommonSubsequence extract things for each pair and @@@ apply this on level 1.

UndirectedEdge @@ Transpose@Cases[SequenceAlignment[##], _List] & @@@ {"woods" <-> "woody", "aback" <-> "alack", "tummy" <-> "yummy", "tumor" <-> "tutor"}

{{"s"} <-> {"y"}, {"b"} <-> {"l"}, {"t"} <-> {"y"}, {"m"} <-> {"t"}}

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