Note that you can avoid doing the second regex all together by putting the two arrays together, the longer phrases in front of the shorter ones to allow the greediness of regex to work..

That is, if you make the join in join "|", (@array, @array2), then I get the following without modifying your regex at all: 

string after first - there is a <B>foo bar</B> and a <B>bar foo</B> an
+d also <B>foo</B> and <B>bar</B>.

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In reply to Re: Double regex match not working correctly. by Masem
in thread Double regex match not working correctly. by the_0ne

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