Thanks to all who replied. I kept running into testing all true or else all false and finally gave up on keeping the admins as an array. The code below tests true for all names in $admin_users and no other names. This may be crap programming but it works!
TIA
jg

my $admin_users = "Jason|WAYNE|Rob";

if ($author =~ /($admin_users)/i) {
    print "$blah";
} else {
    print "$uber_blah";
}
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