Hi Monks

I would like to match whatever matches first among my patterns:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $str1 = 'ABCBXBCA';
my $str2 = 'APCBXBCAC';
my @patterns = ('B.B', 'CB');
foreach my $string ($str1,$str2){
        foreach my $pat (@patterns){
                if($string =~ /$pat/){
                        print "String:$string Pattern:$pat KeyWord:$` 
+\n";;
                        last;
                }
 
        }
}
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The Output is:

String:ABCBXBCA Pattern:B.B KeyWord:A
String:APCBXBCAC Pattern:B.B KeyWord:APC

I would like to have

String:ABCBXBCA Pattern:B.B KeyWord:A
String:APCBXBCAC Pattern:B.B KeyWord:AP

Just note the only change of AP from APC in the current results.. as the pattern 'CB' can match first before 'B.B'.

How I can accomplish this..
Thanks,
Artist

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