Ok, agreed. But I'd still like to clean up that regex, so here it goes:

$string=~s/($string_1)(.*)($string_2)/$3$2$1/msg;
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That should be a bit better than matching the whole string, also I added the /m modifier. I put the /s modifier in too because I thought /msg just looked cool : )

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Stephen Rawls