breaking a string down into characters

[Leefhead]

its been about 3 years since i was in highschool and used turing at all, so needless to say, i dont remember a whole lot of it. my girlfriend is having problems with a word game, so i decided i would make a program to pretty much make her annihilate the score board, lol. anyways, im inputting a text file with a list of words into a flexible array, and im getting a list of characters inputted by the user, put that into a array. only part i dont remember how to do is break down the words that i got out of the text files down into characters so i can compare the characters in the words with the characters that were typed in to make sure that their equal. for example....list of words

code:

aa aah aahed aahing aahs aal aalii aaliis aals aardvark aardwolf aargh aarrgh aarrghh aas aasvogel ab aba abaca abacas abaci

ect....(yes i know that a lot of those arent words...im going to work on that after), say the user typed in

code:

a b c d e f g

i want it to compare the list of words with the characters, so ...

code:

aa = false (only one a) aah = false (only one a) aahed= false (only one a) aahing= false (only one a) aahs= false (only one a) aal= false (only one a) aalii= false (only one a) aaliis= false (only one a) aals= false (only one a) aardvark= false (only one a) aardwolf= false (only one a) aargh= false (only one a) aarrgh= false (only one a) aarrghh= false (only one a) aas= false (only one a) aasvogel= false (only one a) ab = true (one a, one b) aba = false (only one a) abdc = true abcds = false (no s) abaci = false (only one a)

so...theres my question...lets see if anyone understands what im saying, and might even have an answer for me, haha. Thanks.

Mod Edit: Just making your post easier to read with code tags

[Insectoid]

<string>(index). For example,

code:

var apple := "apple" put apple (3)

This will return the third letter of 'apple', 'p'.

[Leefhead]

ah yes, thanks for jaring my memory.