Hi ,

After reading some documentations and browse internet, i didn't find a solution to my problem.
I've a group in a regex with some words i'm looking for in a string ( a kind of synonyms's list ).
My problem is , even if it is a synonyms's list , i need to know who's the longest one who was found.

In this exemple , my wish is to have "apple in a fridge" returned by the match instead of "an apple".
 perl -e '
 my $string = "an apple in the fridge";
 $string =~ /(apple in the fridge|an apple)/;
 print $1 . "\n";
 '
an apple

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Do you have a suggestion to help me with this kind of situation ?

Thanks for your help,
Best regards,

In reply to Regex Match : Doesn't return the longest match when there's a common word present in the group by ssc37

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