NAME
    LCS - Longest Common Subsequence

SYNOPSIS
      use LCS;

DESCRIPTION
    LCS is an implementation based on a LCS algorithm.

  CONSTRUCTOR
    new()
        Creates a new object which maintains internal storage areas for the
        LCS computation. Use one of these per concurrent LCS() call.

  METHODS
    LCS(\@a,\@b)
        Finds a Longest Common Subsequence, taking two arrayrefs as method
        arguments. It returns an array reference of corresponding indices,
        which are represented by 2-element array refs.

    LLCS(\@a,\@b)
        Calculates the length of the Longest Common Subsequence.

    allLCS(\@a,\@b)
        Finds all Longest Common Subsequences. It returns an array reference
        of all LCS.

    lcs2align(\@a,\@b,$LCS)
        Returns the two sequences aligned, missing positions are represented
        as empty strings.

    sequences2hunks($a, $b)
        Transforms two array references of scalars to an array of hunks (two
        element arrays).

    hunks2sequences($hunks)
        Transforms an array of hunks to two arrays of scalars.

    align2strings($hunks, $gap_character)
        Returns two strings aligned with gap characters.

    fill_strings($string1, $string2, $fill_character)
        If one of the two strings is shorter, fills it up to the same
        length.

    max($i, $j)
        Returns the maximum of two numbers.

  EXPORT
    None by design.

SOURCE REPOSITORY
    <http://github.com/wollmers/LCS>

AUTHOR
    Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2014- Helmut Wollmersdorfer

LICENSE
    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
