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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but you can find longest common subsequences with Algorithm::Diff. With that, you could find the lengths of the differing sequences and divide that by the total length. (If you have trouble understanding the documentation for Algorithm::Diff, I wrote a module review which may help.

If the code snippet you have above is an accurate description of what you're trying to calculate, it may be faster (though more memory-intensive) to split up the strings into arrays and compare an element at a time, rather than calling substr over and over. Something like this: (note, this is untested)

my @ref_elems = split //, $ref_seq; my @test_elems = split //, $test_seq; my $score = 0; for (my $i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) { $score += $ref_elems[$i] eq $test_elems[$i]; }
Once you have the sequences in arrays, you can use all kinds of nifty techniques like mapcar, which can traverse both arrays in one neat statement. The top of that node has a very clear explanation of how to use it.

HTH


In reply to Re: Similarity of strings by VSarkiss
in thread Similarity of strings by professa

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