my $muster = '1-5-4-bla2-sles8'; my @elements = qw/i486-glibc22-linux sles8 0815 5-4 foo/; my @found = grep { $muster =~ /$_/ } @elements; print 'Die Elemente ' . join(', ',@found); print " wurden in dem Muster $muster gefunden.\n"