I'm having a hard time trying to make sense of what you may mean. Your code plainly won't work and IMHO it doesn't shed any light on what your real aim may be.

here you have a variable to which you apply a series of substitutions, (incidentally it is customary to write 

for ($status) {
    s/P|F|C|D|I/Posted/g;
    s/A/Accepted/g;
    s/N/New/g;
    s/R/Rejected/g;
    s/S/Save/g;
    s/X/Canceled/g;
}

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when you have a long series of of substitutions - much cleaner IMHO).

Update: contrary to what I wrote above, in this particular case I'd probably do something along the lines of (untested): 

my %subst={ A => 'Accepted',
            N => 'New',
            R => 'Rejected',
            S => 'Save',
            X => 'Canceled' };
$subst{$_}='Posted' for qw/P F C D I/;
$status =~ s/[A-Z]/$subst{$&}||$&/ge;

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Note to the update: I am aware of the gotchas about $& & C. My gut feeling is that people overestimate them. Personally I'm not a fanatic of its use, but happen to resort to it every now and again...

Then you create an array containing only (the value of) that variable and sort it, which is an immaterial operation, since it has only one entry in any case.

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