Hi,

I need to solve a problem with perl.

I have lots of text file and have a wordlist with more than 100 words.

I will search every word in every text file, if a word matches (there is only one matched word in every text file) then I will record it to mysql db. So, I will search word1 in text1, then word2 in text1, then word3 in text1 (it matched and I recorded it). After that word1 in text2 word2 in text2 (it matched ...) and so on..

What is the best way to do so? My way is to assign all the words to an array, then search every word by for loop.

Is there any shorter/different way? For example, is it possible to search with one regex statement and get the matched word?

For instance, can I use or (|) character (like word1|word2|word3|word4) and get matched character? If it is possible, how can I get it?

Thanks in advance,

In reply to Perl regex question by anlamarama

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