String Matching Utility with Optional and Alternative Text -- 2

(I encourage only college students and freshers to bid for this project. This single-function utility may give them some coding practice. The money on offer may not be much for an experienced developer to consider it.) This is part of a testing system. A student provides the answer to a question in the form of a string. The answer provided by the student (hereinafter called the "input") and the expected answer (hereinafter called the "expected") will be passed as two parameters to your function as strings and your function has to report whether they match or not. But this is not a straight comparison. Your function needs to do the following: Leading and trailing spaces, if any, from both the input and expected to be ignored. (This is trivial, i know.) Multiple consecutive white spaces from both input and expected to be trrated as a single space. if the expected contains some text in parenthesis (like this), it is optional. The input may or may not contain such text. The expect may contain alternative text in square brackets, separated by forward slash, such as [one / two / four]. exactly one of the options must be found in the input in place of the text in such square brackets. I will insist on a video chat with the person who will work on the project, through this site, before awarding the project, to ensure that the requirements are clearly understood. Texting takes too much time. If you are unwilling or unable to do a video chat, please don't bother to bid. (See attached file for test data and other instructions)