use strict; use warnings; use encoding 'UTF8'; my $aData = <; close ($inB); chomp @keys; my $match = join '|', sort {length $b <=> length $a} @keys; $match = qr{($match)}; open my $inA, "<:utf8", \$aData; while (defined (my $line = <$inA>)) { print "Found '$1' in line $.:\n $line" if $line =~ $match; }