Basically I have two sets of arrays consisting of strings. In one of the arrays I have shortened strings of the strings of the other array. The part of the string which gets shortened are things contained by <>. For instance in the first array I have Ut and on the right side I have abcd<Utly> and I need to replace Utly with Ut. Basically I am trying to use regular expressions to find and replace the part which matches. 
$1[0] = "Ut";
$2[0] = "abcd<Utly>";

foreach $thing(@1)
{
    foreach $thing2(@2)
    {
        if($thing2 =~ /\s*<$thing\s*>/)
        {
             $thing2 =~ s/$thing/$thing/;
         }
     }
}

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In reply to replacing strings using reg exp by Anonymous Monk

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