Re: Calling all REGEX Gurus - nasty problem involving regular expressions combined with hash keys - I need ideas as to how to even approach the problem

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Calling all REGEX Gurus - nasty problem involving regular expressions combined with hash keys - I need ideas as to how to even approach the problem

I have to determine, as quickly as possible, which key contains the longest substring that is contained in the response text that this service has provided.

Do you mean to say that they do not just truncate, but send random chunks from the middle of the error text? And are they inconsistent in which chunk of the error text they send for each code?

[ted.byers]

I have not seen a consistent truncation pattern, save that it looks like some of the beginning and some of the end of the "standard" response may be truncated"

And we're talking something of the order of 100 possible responses

Thanks

Ted