Re: using an array in a regex

But what I really want to do is substitute $EXEC_block with ...... 'any element of the array: @EXEC_block'.

use Regexp::List ();

$EXEC_block = Regexp::List->new->list2re(@EXEC_block);

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please explain to me why Perl does not allow !=~.

It's !($var =~ $re) or $var !~ $re.

Reference: perlop

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Re^2: using an array in a regex by blazar (Canon) on Jan 17, 2006 at 09:09 UTC
Nice answer, and an informative one. In fact generally one does this by hand joining on `"\|"` - and probably forgetting to `\Q...\E` (or quotemeta). However it is worth mentioning that the OP may also do like most mortals: `for my $EXEC_block (@EXEC_block) { last if s/...//; # since we don't want to try again after we succeeded! }` [download] PS: shameless self ad - (slightly) related topic!	[reply] [d/l] [select]