I know this thread is pretty old, but I just read it and saw a way to improve the code. One thing you could do that should speed things up is to store the results in a hash. You can then avoid using uniq and you will only be doing the matching operation on pieces you haven't yet seen. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $line;
my %count;
while ( defined ( $line = <> ) ) {
   chomp $line;
   for my $a ( 1 .. length ( $line ) ) {
      for my $b ( 1 .. ( length ( $line ) + 1 - $a ) ) {
         my $out = substr ( $line, $a - 1, $b );
         next unless $count{ $out }; # so you don't have to use uniq
         next if ( $count{ $out } = () = $line =~ /$out/g ) > 1;
         print "length: $b digits: $out quantity: $count{ $out }";
      }
   }
}

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I just glanced through the other comments and saw some good points in there too, so if you're using this code make sure to take those into account as well. I didn't want to rewrite the whole thing, but just wanted to point out how the hash could be useful.

In reply to Re: Longest repeated string... by redEvo
in thread Longest repeated string... by Yzzyx

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