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would Quantum::Superpositions help any?

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Re: Re: Good Idiom for Matching List?
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Dec 12, 2002 at 16:07 UTC
    Conceptually, any(@namelist) eq $candidate will be what I want, but how do you get that into a regex, where $candidate is actually the next however many chars from the input?
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