G'day neversaint,

Lorem ipsum text is fine as a typesetting tool; however, assuming you've used it here purely as example text, I'm wondering whether it truly reflects your real data. For instance, if your real data contained 'Data::Dumper', is that one or two words and should the '::' be retained; if your real data contained fractional numbers, would the number be considered a complete word and how would you differentiate between the '.' in the number and a '.' terminating a sentence; and so on and so forth.

Anyway, based solely on the example text you've supplied, this does what you want: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
    my $line = q{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing e
+lit.};
    my @array = (q{ipsum}, q{sit amet}, q{elit});
    my $re = qr{(?:@{[join q{|} => @array]})};
    $line =~ s/$re//g;
    say for split /\W+/ => $line;
'
Lorem
dolor
consectetur
adipisicing

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Parsing a sentence based on array list by kcott
in thread Parsing a sentence based on array list by neversaint

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