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in thread Longest common substring with N mismatches

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!
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Re^4: Longest common substring with N mismatches
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2017 at 15:51 UTC

    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) }
      Hi ikegami! Many thanks! I forgot to post it here, I think I solved my problem with the String::Approx module (since I always had just 1 mismatch). But I will try your approach as well, it seems to be more solid anyway...
      Many thanks again!

        Not quite. "Word" and "world" have one mismatch according to that module.