That one-line split of the encoded string into five parts is exactly what I was looking for but couldn't articulate. Well done.

I did understand the kata correctly. My expression simply needed a very minor correction to properly work with "match" instead of "search". Thank you.

Has this kata been modified? The test suite uses the "match" method on a Python re.compile object, but match only checks for matches at the start of a string. I don't think that is what the kata is asking for.

I used the "search" method, which scans the entire string, and sure enough it is failing only on the randomized cases where the target is embedded in the middle of the string whereas any of these randomized cases pass in the code on my machine.

Not sure what is meant by "last power of 2". Can we get clarification on that point?

Specifies that PL/SQL must be used, but answer actually fails on valid PL/SQL syntax while the training screen defaults to Postgres. Mention of the people table is also irrelevant.