in reply to Re^2: regex question
in thread regex question

To make it a general solution, you need to add quotemeta and you gotta be careful about ordering if one key can be the the start of another key. And if you're going to add (?:), you might as well use qr//.

my ($pat) = map qr/$_/, join '|', map quotemeta, sort { length($b) <=> length($a) } keys %value_lkup; my @data = map $value_lkup{$_}, /$pat/g;