in reply to Array compare using elements as the pattern match.

Here is a slightly shorter version:
use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array1 = qw(234 453 111 239); my @array2 = qw(v204_txt v234_txt v450_txt v453_txt); my @array3 = grep {my $val=$_; grep {$val=~/$_/} @array1} @array2; print Dumper(\@array3);
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