#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Math::Fibonacci qw( isfibonacci ); my $string = '377'; sub mySubString { my ($string, $offset, $length) = @_; return substr $string, $offset, $length; } sub fibonacciCompare { my ($s, $iteration) = @_; my @matched; for (1..length($s)) { my $inToCompare = mySubString($s, $iteration, $_); my $fibonacci = isfibonacci($inToCompare); push @matched, "Matched: $inToCompare" if ($fibonacci); } return \@matched if $matched[0]; } my $final = fibonacciCompare($string, 0); print Dumper $final if $final; __END__ $ perl test.pl $VAR1 = [ 'Matched: 3', 'Matched: 377' ]; #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use feature 'say'; use Math::Fibonacci qw( isfibonacci ); sub mySubString { my ($string, $offset, $length) = @_; return substr $string, $offset, $length; } sub fibonacciCompare { my ($s, $offset) = @_; my @matched; for (1..length($s)) { my $inToCompare = mySubString($s, $offset, $_); say $inToCompare; my $fibonacci = isfibonacci($inToCompare); push @matched, "Matched: $inToCompare" if ($fibonacci); } return \@matched if $matched[0]; } my %HoA; my @AoA; my $string = '377'; for (1..length($string)) { my $fibonacci = fibonacciCompare($string, 0); push @AoA, $fibonacci; $HoA{$string} = $fibonacci; $string = substr $string, 1; } print Dumper \@AoA; print Dumper \%HoA; __END__ $ perl test.pl 3 37 377 7 77 7 $VAR1 = [ [ 'Matched: 3', 'Matched: 377' ], undef, undef ]; $VAR1 = { '77' => undef, '7' => undef, '377' => [ 'Matched: 3', 'Matched: 377' ] };