chomp for @blocked; # don't expect to match newlines if ( grep { $FORM{'comments'} =~ /\b$_\b/ } @blocked) { ... }
This is somewhat simplistic, not to mention inefficient - the grep continues over every word in the list even if the first word matches. A better approach would use a for loop:
chomp for @blocked; for my $m (@blocked) { if ($FORM{'comments'} =~ /\b$m\b/) { # print your message here. exit; # could also last outside the loop } }
The \b markers are to match at a word boundary, so BLOCK will not be matched in THIS SHOULD BE UNBLOCKED, for example.

However you may want to re-think your approach. Simplistic blockers like this rarely achieve the desired results, and often produce too high a level of false positives to be truly useful. YMMV, of course.


In reply to Re: Blocking based on words in a list by moot
in thread Blocking based on words in a list by matts156

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