in reply to Pattern Matching Query

How about using $sorted_values as the regex? 
if ("abcdefghijklm" =~ /$sorted_values/) {
  ...
}

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Update Or index would work as well.

-Blake

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Re^2: Pattern Matching Query
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 17, 2002 at 13:17 UTC
    And of course to play it safe, if ("abcdefghijklm" =~ /\Q$sorted_values\E/) {

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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