This is a wonderful example of a Seeker of Perl Wisdom posting his/her trial code. What's missing is example input and output that shows what is expected vs. what is produced.

Looks like you are trying to operate on 2 lines at a time (at least that's the effect of your while(<DOC>){$.=<DOC>). Is this correct?

I don't see anything wrong with the rest of the code (modulo others suggestions of using join or qr to avoid the inner loop or recompiling the pattern each time).

Is it possible you have special characters in @final_array that you want to match literally? If so, you need s/\Q$value\E/... or to preprocess your array (once, not in the while loop) with $_ = quotemeta($_) for @final_array or something similar.

In reply to Re: Substitute array value in regular expression by ysth
in thread Substitute array value in regular expression by Anonymous Monk

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