Re: Capture Lookahead

[anonymized user 468275]

Printing all possible substrings is what you asked for and what the replies have delivered. But I do wonder if that can be what you need, especially given that this will generate many duplicates. If you tell us more globally what the goal is, there might be a more efficient solution to the main problem we can find. For example, if you are next going to compare all these substrings with another list of strings, then it would be best to match them after all.

[Cristoforo]

I was too hasty in my assessment of the problem :-(

Yes, there are many unanswered questions - do I want to allow overlapping palindromes?, most likely don't want to allow them when they are 'shortened' versions of a larger one. And the algorithm, (generating all possible subtrings to examine), which is very time consuming, may not be the right way to go. There may even be a module on CPAN that already does this (there is a module that does palindromes for fasta strings) and it does answer some of the questions about overlapping and others as well.

Thanks again to everyone who responded. And to Roy Johnston for the regex solution - very nice!

Chris Yes, fishbot does it directly. I didn't know how to use the ??{ } construct - also forgot about the @- array for the position.