If I correctly understand your problem, you want to find cases where two complete values are the same (the things separated by "~~"), not just any old substring.

To find "a value I've seen before", the quickest way to do it is usually to have that value set as the key of a hash; in this case you additionally want it keyed on the ID, so you probably want to build a hash-of-hashes structure something like:

my %values_by_id;

# for each line from the first file:
my($id1, $values_string1) = split /:/, $line1;
for my $value1 (split /~~/, $values_string1) {
  # set each unique value to be true in the hash
  $values_by_id{$id1}{$value1} = 1;
}

# and then for a line from the second file:
my($id2, $values_string2) = split /:/, $line2;
my @shared_values;
for my $value2 (split /~~/, $values_string2) {
  push @shared_values, $value2 if $values_by_id{$id2}{$values2};
}

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Hope this helps.

In reply to Re: Find common substrings by hv
in thread Find common substrings by Anonymous Monk

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