Re^2: Search for identical substrings

If I'm reading the information right for Algorithm::Diff it will not return what I want. LCS appears to use a "distance" measure. That is it determines the distance over which two strings have the most information in common. This is done by computing hits and misses. The maximum hit count will give the longest distance over which the two strings share commonality. Usually these types of algorithms have a penalty for misses. Nonetheless as I understand LCS, if we are using the strings "banana is split" and "bananas split" we can line up the strings a couple of ways.

banana is split
bananas split
banana--s # 7 characters in common and two misses "-"

or

banana is split
  bananas split
   ana--s split # 10 characters in common and two misses
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Allowing the strings to flex by putting holes in the strings we get...

banana is split
banana..s split # 13 characters in common and two "holes"
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...by putting two holes between "a" and "s" in "bananas"

So "bananas split" (removing the holes from "banana..s split") would be the result of LCS, but I want "s split" with a hit count of 7, no misses and no holes.

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Re^3: Search for identical substrings by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2005 at 00:54 UTC
The problem is that the "LCS" in Algorithm::Diff is Longest Common Sub-Sequence, but for your requirements you need Longest Common String. The difference being the latter is contiguous, whilst the former is not (need not be). You're after this? `P:\test>lcs "banana is split" "banana..s split" banana is split banana..s split s split` [download] I'm still verifying my algorithm is correct, but so far it appears to be about 10x quicker than the XS version of LCSS despite being pure perl. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". The "good enough" maybe good enough for the now, and perfection maybe unobtainable, but that should not preclude us from striving for perfection, when time, circumstance or desire allow.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Search for identical substrings by bioMan (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2005 at 16:50 UTC
You are correct I want the string "s split". Per GrandFather's request I'll try to put some real data into my scratchpad later today.	[reply]
Re^3: Search for identical substrings by graff (Chancellor) on Aug 19, 2005 at 00:09 UTC
... but I want "s split" with a hit count of 7, no misses and no holes. Based on that, I checked that example against my script, and found that I needed to call "end_match()" after "travers_sequence()" was done, in case a match exends to the end of both strings. With that update, the script does what you want in this case. (But for the other sample data you posted above, I think it doesn't come up with the best answer in some cases, and I don't understand why, as yet.)	[reply]