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best possible match among list of strings

Hi,

I want to get the best possible match for a strings among a list of strings.

For eg, my string to be matched is hi/howareyou?rudoingok which needs to be matched against the below list,

hi/
hi/howareyou
hi/howareyou?
hi/howareyou?ru


The result of my match should be hi/howareyou?ru because this has the longest string matching to the original among the rest.

What would be a good way to do it in perl.

Thanks,
Dayanand
Jun 20 '07 #1
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KevinADC
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Use a regular expression. Post the code you have tried so far.
Jun 20 '07 #2
miller
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