I cannot even begin to fully fathom what your attempting but it appears your algorithm has some type of odd dependency on the order of the keys. If I change, 

foreach my $str (sort {($substrings{$b}[1]-$substrings{$b}[0]) <=> ($s
+ubstrings{$a}[1]-$substrings{$a}[0]) || $substrings{$a}[0] <
=> $substrings{$b}[0]}  keys %substrings){

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to 
foreach my $str (sort {($substrings{$b}[1]-$substrings{$b}[0]) <=> ($s
+ubstrings{$a}[1]-$substrings{$a}[0]) || $substrings{$a}[0] <
=> $substrings{$b}[0]} sort keys %substrings){

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 Then the runs are identical.

-derby

Update: Yikes! scratch all of that except, I cannot even begin to fully fathom. There is something wrong with the sort (as pointed out by kyle).

In reply to Re: weird subroutine behavior by derby
in thread weird subroutine behavior by flaviusm

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