Close but no banana, unfortunately. Quoting from the manual:
...you want to find a new sequence S which can be obtained from the first sequence by deleting some items, and from the secend sequence by deleting other items.
What I need instead is to generate a new sequence S which can be obtained from the first list by deleting some items, and from the second list by deleting other items, but only deleting items before the first element of S or after the last element of S.

For example, given this code: 

use Algorithm::Diff qw(LCS);
@seq1 = qw(a b c d f g h j q z);
@seq2 = qw(a b c d e f g i j k r x y z);
@lcs = LCS(\@seq1, \@seq2);

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What is produced is the list qw(a b c d f g j z). It did this by removing letters from the "inside" of S, for example 'e' and 'h'. Instead, I'd want qw(a b c d).

In reply to Re: Re: Finding largest common subset in lists? by anjiro
in thread Finding largest common subset in lists? by anjiro

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