Alternation? 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my @bad = ();
my ($f, $fh, $baddies, $sql, $badregex) = ('./badactors.txt',undef, un
+def, '', undef);
open($fh, '<', $f) or die $!;
while(<$fh>){
    chomp;
    next if m/^$/;
    push @bad,  $_;
}
close($f);

$baddies = join qq{\|},@bad;

$badregex = qr~$baddies~;

# easy test
my $junk = 'doodle bot';
if ($junk=~m/$badregex/) {
    print qq~\nSee....?\n~;
}

1;


__DATA__
$dbh->do("INSERT INTO Site_Visit SET firstVisit = NOW(), lastPage = ?,
+ firstPage = ?, IP = ?, userAgent = ?, orsa = ?, orta = ?, Person_idP
+erson = ?", undef,
     $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}, $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}, $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}, $E
+NV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'}, $cookie{'orsa'}, $data{'orta'}, $user)
    unless $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /bot/i or $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'
+} =~ /facebook/i or $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /dataprovider/i;
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