in reply to dodgy sub
Just so you're aware, you can do something like
qr creates something that allows you to embed regex operators within a string to be used in a regex. :-)$string = str_replace(qr/(?:Hello)|(?:Hi)/, "Good-bye", "Hello My Name + is Elfyn");
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