hello, I am trying to compare string similarity based on the function sort_by_similarity().The strings are stored as array of hashes,I am unable to understand the way to get the sorted strings by similarity. I tried it in this way.

for($x=0;$x<$r;$x++){
@b = sort_by_similarity( \@querysubs,$inputsubs[$x]{'sequence'});
$y=\@b;
#@array=@$y;
#print $y->[0];
#$m=\@array;
#print $m;
$h=\($y->[0]);
print $$h;
#%hash=%\($y->[0]);
foreach my $key(keys %hash){
#print "$key:$hash{$key}\n";
}
}
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Here $inputsubs$x{'sequence'} gives the input string and this is compared with the strings in @querysubs. Ex:-If the input string is

abcdef
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It gets divided into abc bcd cde def according to 3 as the windowsize. If the query sequence is abcefg It even gets divided into abc bce cef efg

I need to compare each of the strings in the inputsubs with the querysubs and get the best matching string for each of these strings using the function sort_by_similarity(),but I am unable to understand the value returned by the function and unable to access the values and print them.

Please help me in solving out this problem.
Regards,
Roopa

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