Hello Monks!
I'm currently writing many online-gaming related scripts and thought it would be nice to have a routine that extracts clantags out of an array of playernames.

Clantags normally consist of 2 or more characters which are (mostly) at the beginning or end of a name but could also be somehere in the middle.

Normally all players of one team should have the tag in their names so i basically have to find them by seeking and extracting the similaritys.

My problem is: i have no real idea how to do that ;)
I already searched CPAN and found modules like String::Similarity and Algorithm::Diff but none of them seem to help me with my problem since i have to match more than 2 strings in order to find the right tag (Some players might be wearing no/ a different tag).

I already thought of splitting the string into substrings (with String::Substrings) and comparing the resulting arrays but that seems to be the solution with the most overhead.

I hope one of you can point me to a more efficient solution.

Some example player names could be:
jP|Azrael
jP|Blade
jP|Henry
(Clantag: jP|)

Jeff.ocr
pr!me.ocr
Lokren.ocr
(Clantag: .ocr)

Thanks in advance,
Braindead_One

In reply to String similarity extraction by Braindead_One

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