Hello, dearest perlmonks. Today, I googled how to get the longest common substring of two strings in Perl, and your own monestary suggested to me this module:

http://search.cpan.org/~dyacob/String-LCSS-0.12/lib/String/LCSS.pm

And lo, and behold, it is a module for the purpose of computing the longest common substring. Except: IT DOESN'T WORK. For example,

perl -MString::LCSS -e 'print String::LCSS::lcss("asdfasdfasdf", "as") . "\n";'

yields the empty string.

The module has at least three bugs filed against it, the first open more than four years and none ever answered, for the critical flaw that it fails to compute what it says. The use of this module in any actual code is a ticking time bomb, to say the least.

So: Given that this module claims to perform an obvious and important function, is dangerously broken, and has a non-responsive maintainer: How do we put it out of its misery, so no future user will have to discover the issue the hard way, as I did?

In reply to How to get a module off CPAN by gwillen

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