Hello, Either nobody in the world has asked this before (unlikely), or my Google-fu is broken (more likely). But I come before the sage Perl monks to ask what seems to me to be an obvious question: According to PerlFAQ, it is apparently "almost" trivial to smart match against a vast swathe of regex patterns by smart matching an array. That's cool. But what if I want to sub out as a result ? For example, assume I've got the ghastly spaghetti-code below : 
 $cleanLine= $elem;
 $cleanLine =~ s/\/.*//g;
 $cleanLine =~ s/\?.*//;
 $cleanLine =~ s/;.*//;
 $cleanLine =~ s/;$//;
 $cleanLine =~ s/\.*//;
etc. etc. ad infinitum

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How can I make that all awesome, beautiful and able to process faster than the speed of light ? ;-) I assume smart matching arrays will have something to do with it, but if you know better, I'm all ears ! P.S. My example above shows all substitutions being to remove characters, but for extra bonus points, how would I implement different substitutions based on different patterns ?

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