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Anybody knows where to look for?

ikegami replied to a similar question here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6258922/efficient-substring-matching-in-perl

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Re^2: Longest common substring with N mismatches
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 11, 2017 at 21:41 UTC

    It was buggy, but now it's fixed. Also, it now returns all matches instead of just one (still in O(M*N) time).

      Ikegami, that is indeed precisely what I was after.
      One small question, if you may:
      Is there a way that I can know which part (beg-end) of each of the two strings I provide is covered by the LCSS?
      Many thanks!

        Just change what you put into @solutions. Replace

        $i-$l+1

        with

        # Start of match in first string # End of match in first string [ $i-$l+1, $i+1 ]

        or

        # Start of match in first string # End of match in first string # Start of match in second string # End of match in second string [ $i-$l+1, $i+1, $j-$l+1, $j+1 ]

        or

        # Start of match in first string # Start of match in second string # Length of match [ $i-$l+1, $j-$l+1, $l ]

        and remove

        map { substr($s, $_, $best_l) }