Good trick. But when s/($profanity)/eval '"'.$profane{$1}.'"'/ge turns to s/($profanity)/lift $1 off/g, doesn't it give you "life piss you off off" since "piss you off" is what being captured into $1?

Consider this: 
$_ = "candies lift me up";
s/(cand(y|ies)|lift(s|) (me|us) up)/1 $1; 2 $2; 3 $3; 4 $4;\n/g;
print ;

__END__

1 candies; 2 ies; 3 ; 4 ;
 1 lift me up; 2 ; 3 ; 4 me;

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"me" is captured in $4. In other words, we don't know ahead of time which of the $1 .. $n "me" will end up in when the regex can have arbitrary many brackets.

In reply to Re: Re: Turn Hate Mail to Love Letter: Regex Multi-Word/Phase Replace by chunlou
in thread Turn Hate Mail to Love Letter: Regex Multi-Word/Phase Replace by chunlou

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