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In software industries, a technique called software cloning has come into existence. Software cloning has various broad aspects, out of them; the shadow of light is thrown on one of the aspect called code cloning. In code cloning, some significant quantity of code as desired by the user is taken from some pre-existing code and copied into some another code. In short, it is a kind of copying or pasting of code where some desired code is copied from one source and pasted into another source. The code in which pasting is done is called the replica of original code. In other words, the code which contains the replicated code is called the clone. [30]This research work proposes a Hybrid techique which is the goodmix of Metric based technique & Token based technique and also works on multiple languages to unmask the clones. In the Token based technique, Suffix array based string matching algorithm has been used to unmask Type1, Type2 and Type 3 clones.