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in thread Search for identical substrings

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

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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.

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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.

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