RosettaCodeData/Task/ABC-Problem/Julia/abc-problem.julia

using Printf

function abc(str::AbstractString, list)
    isempty(str) && return true
    for i in eachindex(list)
        str[end] in list[i] &&
            any([abc(str[1:end-1], deleteat!(copy(list), i))]) &&
            return true
    end
    return false
end

let test = ["A", "BARK","BOOK","TREAT","COMMON","SQUAD","CONFUSE"],
    list = ["BO","XK","DQ","CP","NA","GT","RE","TG","QD","FS",
            "JW","HU","VI","AN","OB","ER","FS","LY","PC","ZM"]
    for str in test
        @printf("%-8s |  %s\n", str, abc(str, list))
    end
end