Re^2: longest common substring

For more than 2 strings, I'd also suggest Tree::Suffix (although I've never used this module. It is just in theory the best algorithm).

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Re^3: longest common substring by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 02, 2008 at 19:33 UTC
lima1, The original thread I referenced was for longest common subsequence. I still have yet to find an implementation for finding the longest common subsequences for > 2 strings other than the one I posted. I adapted it for common substrings to show it was possible. I would definitely use and recommend Tree::Suffix now that I know about it. I mentioned my home grown implementation in this thread in case the XS version of the module flaviusm was using was also broken. Thanks! Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re^4: longest common substring by lima1 (Curate) on Jan 03, 2008 at 07:24 UTC
I think the best exact solutions for the longest common subsequence problem are the dynamic programming ones. But this is only reasonable for 2-4 strings (0(n^2) to O(n^4)). So people use heuristics. A trivial one is to calculate a simple (tree) clustering with something like UPGMA. For example: `$a='AAAB'; $b='AABB'; $c='ABBB'; $d='BBBB'; +---$a +----+ \| +---$b \| + \| \| +---$c +----+ +---$d` [download] Then you calculate the subsequences of the leafs (a,b) and (c,d) and in the next step (according some special rules) the subsequences of the subsequences.	[reply] [d/l]