>perl -wMstrict -le "my %xlate = ( 'string a' => '3', 'string b' => '2', true => '1', false => '0', tt => '22', ttt => '33', ); my $xl = join '|', map { quotemeta } reverse sort keys %xlate; $xl = qr{ (?i) \b (?: $xl) \b }xms; ;; my $s = 'vv TTT ww TT String A xx sTrInG b xtruex True yy FALSE zz'; print qq{'$s'}; ;; $s =~ s{ ($xl) }{$xlate{ lc $1 }}xmsg; print qq{'$s'}; " 'vv TTT ww TT String A xx sTrInG b xtruex True yy FALSE zz' 'vv 33 ww 22 3 xx 2 xtruex 1 yy 0 zz'