Below are the results from my first pass -- verifying basic functionality -- of (my adaptions of) the 8 solutions from tye, choroba, DamianConway, tobyink, AnomalousMonk, hdb, Eily, sundialsvc4 in this thread:

C:\test>1039630-b.pl14 -SHOW=0
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfr'

       tye found 'fredfrefred'; excluded from further consideration


      svc4 found 'redfrefredf'; excluded from further consideration

Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredf'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefred'

       hdb found 'none found'; excluded from further consideration

Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefre'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefr'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfref'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfre'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfrefredfr'

   choroba found 'fredfrefredfre'; excluded from further consideration

Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfrefredf'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfrefred'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfrefre'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfrefr'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfref'
Looking for 'fredfre' in 'fredfrefredfre'

      Eily found 'fredfrefred'; excluded from further consideration

Partisipants in performance tests: anomalous tobyink damianc

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If authors want to correct (my adaptions of) their solutions that's great, (but please don't moan at me If I screwed the pouch adapting them to subroutines :).

Here's the test harness:

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In reply to Re: Finding repeat sequences. (Results:Part 1) by BrowserUk
in thread Finding repeat sequences. by BrowserUk

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