Thanks again for all the help!

I went over my script in light of all the excellent comments, and now I have something I think is much nicer. 

my @offensive_words = qw( smurf fork rake );
my $bad             = join('|', @offensive_words);
   $bad = qr($bad);
    ...
    open FH, $filename;
    while(<FH>){
 /($bad)/oi and push( @rude_quotes, $1) and next;
 /^\d{4}-(.+)/os and push( @witty_quotes, $1 );
    }

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So now I get what I wanted, and also nice array of rude quotes which is sure to come in handy...
Thanks again!

In reply to Re: Re: test if a string contains a list member by mull
in thread test if a string contains a list member by mull

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