Re: searching problem

You can create a regex that matches any of the reversed words:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @words = qw(mamy dady bal foo bar ymamaa arabic);
my $regex = join '|', map scalar reverse, @words;
$regex    = qr/$regex/;
print "$_\n" for grep /$regex/, @words;
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Re^2: searching problem by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Jan 18, 2013 at 13:45 UTC
A small simplification: `my $regex = reverse join '\|', @words;` [download] Bill	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: searching problem by Lotus1 (Vicar) on Jan 18, 2013 at 22:57 UTC
The way I understood the OP was print out the word which when in reverse matches any other word. Your solution does the opposite. For example instead of printing bar since 'rab' matches in arabic, it prints arabic. ymamaa was also printed since 'mamy' in reverse matches it. My point is that arabic in reverse doesn't match anything. `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @words = qw(mamy dady bal foo bar xrabbit ymamaa arabic); my $list = join ' ', @words; foreach( @words ) { my $rev = reverse $_; print "$_\n" if $list =~ /$rev/; } __END__ mamy bar` [download]	[reply] [d/l]