i am facing problem in this particular program. the setup of the program is like this.. its an algorithm where a pattern is searched in a particular string. for eg:

if the string @string="BIOINFORMBIOINFORM";

if the pattern is @pat="INFO";

the program has to assign values to INFO in the reverse order, like, I N F O shud have values 4 3 2 1.

ie., I=> 4, N=>3, F=>2, O=>1 incase if the pattern is BIOINFO, the values shud be, 5 4 1 4 3 2 1. ie.,B=>5, I=>4,O=>1,I=>4,N=>3,F=>2,O=>1

so that each alphabet shud have a unique value in this order only.ie., in the reverse order.so, if $m wud be the scalar value of @pat=INFO, then $m=4. for BIOINFO example it shud be $m=7.The values of all the pattern elements have been assigned as above...the rest of the alpabets apart from the pattern alphabets in the string shud be assigned as $m+1.so let us take the INFO example.$m+1=5 or 4+1=5.

so, now the string values are B=>5, I=>4, O=>1, I=>4, N=>3, F=>2,O=>1,R=>5,M=>5, B=>5, I=>4, O=>1, I=>4, N=>3, F=>2, O=>1,R=>5,M=>5.

the abv said is alphabets in KEYS and the numbers in VALUES. how do i do this ????

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In reply to problem in assigning values to keys by tweety

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