use strict; use warnings; my @priority = qw(RB1 RB2 FL1 FL11 FL2 QB1 QB2 TE1 WR1 WR2 DST); my $position = 'FL1'; print "$_\n" for grep !/$position/, @priority; #### RB1 RB2 FL2 QB1 QB2 TE1 WR1 WR2 DST