sub fill_template { my( $template, %values ) = @_; my $re_values = join "|", map { "\b$_\b" } reverse sort keys %values; $template =~ s!($re_values)!exists $values{ $1 } ? $values{ $1 } : $1!gre; } for my $linenumber (0..$#arr) { my $user_data = fill_template( $data, USER_C => $arr[$i], IP => $arr1[$i] ); print $user_data; # well, output to a file, but that's another problem }