This is the only way I could come up with to address the fact that some servers use more than 255 characters.  No rewrite was needed at all if we're only caring about the base class, as while it wasn't pretty, a search for "s_periodic" would still get you all the s_periodic boxes despite the s_classes tags being cut off.  It works (see periodic-a003 in the AWS console, which was used for testing out the split tags).