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Where Regexp::Optimizer and Regexp::Assemble are for patterns, Regexp::List is for text.
use Regexp::List; print Regexp::List->new->list2re(qw( abcpwbln08 abcpwbln07 abcpwbnn10 abcpwbnn06 adesicln09 adesicln08 adesicln01 adesicnn05 ));