What is your exact issue. I find nothing wrong with the code (besides being needlessly verbose and containing an unneeded /g, see below). The regexp should work as far as I can see. Indeed, it works find on this test program:

use strict;

my $wordOne = 'longwordOne';
my $wordTwo = 'anotherLongWord';
my $wordThree = 'thirdLongHere';

while (<DATA>) {
next if ($_ =~ /(?:$wordOne|$wordTwo|$wordThree)/gi);

  print ;

}

exit;


__DATA__
blah blah longwordOne blah
blow
blow
blee anotherLongWord glgl
thirdLongHere
fddsf ds sdfs fs fsd
  fggh hg longwordOne
sdasd

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I get:
blow
blow
fddsf ds sdfs fs fsd
sdasd

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and the next can be written more succinctly as: 
next if /$wordOne|$wordTwo|$wordThree/i;

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-pete
"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."

In reply to Re: next if attempt by dreadpiratepeter
in thread next if attempt by Anonymous Monk

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