How can I find the words consist of the letters inside the keyword in Lua?

Question

For example, I have a keyword \"abandoned\" and I want to find the words that contains letters of this keyword such as \"done\", \"abandon\", band\", from the arrays I stored t

Answer 1

Run the loop on your arrays and use string.find to check against this long word.

for idx = 1, #stored_words do
   local word = stored_words[idx]
   if string.find(long_word, word, 1, true) then
      print(word .. " matches part of " .. long_word)
   end
end