Thank you very much. This will help me. Can we perfom a match by first concating the 2 strings and then querying on it.
   my $left = "xfafasfsdfasdfasdsfFOOBAR";
   my $right = "FOOBAR4t11";
   # my $concat = "xfafasfsdfasdfasdsfFOOBARFOOBAR4t11";
   my $concat = $left,$right;

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I should be able to hold on to FOOBAR in a back reference so that I can do further manipulation.
I need it this way because I do not know the size of boundaries which will match and I would like to match the maximum characters possible to match.
After this match the two sub strings should be concatnated. this concatnated string will have a single copy of FOOBAR in the middle. like 
   my $conc = "xfafasfsdfasdfasdsfFOOBAR4t11";

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now this concatnated string will need to matched with one more string let us say 
   my $str3 = "AR4t11xysadgsfje";

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Now AR4t11 will match and the above process is repeated. How efficient will this be if I have about sub strings of size about 500 each and I need to compare about 10000 such sequences with each other.

Thank you snowcrash I am using your snippet to solve my problem i.e binary search method. trying to match size between a predefined minimum required match and a maximum match, the size of the smaller among the two compared strings. I need to do this because I need a maximum possible match.

braj

In reply to Boundry search rephrased question? by Anonymous Monk

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