#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $haystack = shift; my %needles; undef @needles{@ARGV}; my @len = sort {$a<=>$b} keys %{{ map { (length,0) } keys %needles }}; my $pos = 0; my $hlen = length $haystack; while ($pos + $len[0] <= $hlen) { for my $L (@len) { last if $pos + $L > $hlen; my $substr = substr($haystack, $pos, $L); $needles{$substr}++ if exists $needles{$substr}; } $pos++; } use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%needles;