• First - doesn't BioPerl have a few functions that will do this?
• I don't think so.

As for code ... you still don't have all the requirements laid out yet. Specifically:

• * Do the matches have to be in the order specified? For example, what should @new_query contain if $string = 'EICHENLEBAUMSCHU'?
• @new_query = qw( EIC, LEBAUMSCHU);
• * What happens if something in @query isn't there? For example, $string = 'XXX'.
• @new_query = @query
• * What happens if there is more than one match? For example, $string = 'EICBAUMEIC'.
• will not be the case
• * What happens if something isn't there and there's two matches on something else?
• remove double
• * What happens if one element in @query fits into another element? For example, @query = qw( BAUM AU ).
• @new_query = qw(BAUM)
• * What happens if there are two possible solutions? For example, $string = 'BAABAB' and @query = qw( AA BA ).
• will not be the case
I'm sure there are other possibilities that I didn't think of in the first five minutes of looking at the problem. Remember - if you can't explain the problem to a teddy bear, you can't explain the problem to a computer. >thanks for good comments Murcia

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