NAME

String::LCSS - Find The Longest Common Substring of Two Strings.

VERSION

This document refers to String::LCSS version 1.00.

SYNOPSIS

    use String::LCSS;
    my $longest = lcss( "zyzxx", "abczyzefg" );
    print $longest, "\n";
    my @result = lcss( "zyzxx", "abczyzefg" );
    print "$result[0] ($result[1],$result[2])\n";

DESCRIPTION

String::LCSS provides the function "lcss" to ferret out the longest common substring shared by two strings passed as arguments.

SUBROUTINES

lcss($string1, $string2)

"undef" is returned if the susbstring length is one char or less.

In scalar context, returns the substring.

When used in an array context, "lcss" will return the indexi of the match root in the two args.

EXPORT

The "lcss" function is exported by default.

BUGS

There are no known bugs in this module.

SEE ALSO

String::LCSS_XS is not pure Perl, but it was created to be faster.

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

AUTHOR

The original author is Daniel Yacob (CPAN ID: DYACOB).

Gene Sullivan (gsullivan@cpan.org) is a co-maintainer.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Code provided by BrowserUk from PerlMonks.