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That looks like it should work. 
$ say /^.+(s m e f|s f pl|s f).+$/ for "-s f-", "-s f pl-";
s f
s f pl

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Re^2: match longest sequence in an "or" RE
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Sep 24, 2011 at 19:13 UTC 
    >perl -wMstrict -lE
"say /^.+(s m e f|s f pl|s f).+$/ for '-s m e f s f pl s f-';
"
s f

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