The following code isn't intended to be a cut-n-paste solution, but rather a demonstration of a technique you can use to search for multiple keywords and do replacements based on those keywords. 

my %replacements = qw/men     women
                      houses  homes
                      cats    dogs
                      venus   mars
                      carpet  rug
                      full    empty/;

my $string = "men cats houses venus carpet full";

for my $keyword ( keys %replacements ) {
    my $re = qr/\b$keyword\b/;
    $string =~ s/$re/$replacements{$keyword}/gi;
}
print "$string\n";

__OUTPUT__
women dogs homes mars rugs empty

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Hope this helps. There are other similar idioms, and other different idioms that accomplish the same thing, but this one seems to be more or less what you're asking for.


Dave

In reply to Re: Separating multiple keyword search input by davido
in thread Separating multiple keyword search input by Dente

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