#! perl use strict; use warnings; my @regexen = ( q{\s+user\s"[^"]+"\s+password\s"[^"]+"\s+hash2\s+access(\s+console){2}} . q{(\s+new-password-at-login)?} . q{(\s+member\s"(default|engineer|networktest)"){2}(\s+exit){0,2}}, q{\s+user\s"[^"]+"\s+password\s"[^"]+"\s+hash2\s+access(\s+console){2}} . q{(\s+new-password-at-login)?} . q{(\s+member\s"(default|READ-ONLY)"){2}(\s+exit){0,2}}, q{\s+user\s"[^"]+"\s+password\s"[^"]+"\s+hash2\s+access} . q{(\s+(console|snmp|li)){3}\s+console(\s+new-password-at-login)?} . q{(\s+member\s"(default|LI|li-prof1)"){2}(\s+exit){0,2}}, ); my $n = 1; my %dic = map { qr{$_} => 'REPLACE' . $n++ } @regexen; my $text; { local $/ = ''; # Paragraph mode while (my $para = ) { for my $matchkey (keys %dic) { last if $para =~ s%$matchkey%$dic{$matchkey}%g; } $text .= $para; } } print $text; __DATA__ user "testuser1" password "08Cl3V.leJKU/GskqArA0Yp4MFo" hash2 access console console new-password-at-login member "default" member "engineer" This paragraph doesn't match any of the regexen. user "v-test" password "VCp0GjSBK/KiWW.PgkQp7swXVMZ" hash2 access console console new-password-at-login member "default" member "READ-ONLY"