Hi, I am trying to build one small tool for analying dial-peer in cisco voice gateways. In summary, I have lot of regex numbers(or dialed number patterns) each directed to different ports.
for example :
56.. --> directed to port1 ( . - matches any digits)
567. --> directed to port 2
5... --> directed to port x.
Now user inputs a number 5679. output should be port2.
Input -------- output
5600 -------- port1
5700 -------- port x
How will I choose the best pattern in perl because ,5679 matches all the dialed number patters.
Any help on this would be of great help to me.

In reply to Longest match finding. by rrboloor

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