#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Math::Fibonacci qw( isfibonacci ); my $string = '377'; sub mySubString { my ($string, $offset, $length) = @_; return substr $string, $offset, $length; } sub fibonacciCompare { my ($s, $iteration) = @_; my @matched; for (1..length($s)) { my $inToCompare = mySubString($s, $iteration, $_); my $fibonacci = isfibonacci($inToCompare); push @matched, "Matched: $inToCompare" if ($fibonacci); } return \@matched if $matched[0]; } my $final = fibonacciCompare($string, 0); print Dumper $final if $final; __END__ $ perl test.pl $VAR1 = [ 'Matched: 3', 'Matched: 377' ];