#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $s1 = 'GATTACGAGTGGCGCTCGTGTAACGGCA';

# Here are the array of the substrings, note that the number of 
# substrings may differ from array to array
# and length of the substring may vary (defined as a parameter) 

my @ar  =  ('GATTACG','GCGCTCG','AACGGCA');  #21 (0,11,21)
my @ar2 =  ('GATTACG','TTACGAG','CGTGTAA');  #16
my @ar3 =  ('TACGAGT','GTGGCGC','GCTCGTG');  #17
my @ar4 =  ('GG','GG');                      #4


score($s1,\@ar2);

sub score{
  my ($str,$array) = @_;
  my @pos;
  my $sub_len = length @$array[1];

  foreach (@$array){
        my $idx = index $s1, $_;
        push @pos, $idx;
        print "$idx\n";
      }

     # I'm not sure where to go from here
     for (0..$#pos){
         my $sum = $pos[$_]+$sub_len;
           
        }

   }