use strict; use warnings; use Pod::Usage; my $format = { abc => 1, bar => 1, fii => 1, wee => 1, }; my $opts; $opts->{params} = ["a", "fa"]; my $str = "(".join('|', @{$opts->{params}}).")"; if (!grep { /^$str/i } keys %$format) { pod2usage( -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR, -msg => "$0 bad parameter difinition used [" . join(", ", sort {$a cmp $b} @{$opts->{params}}) . "].\n" . "Possible parameters are: " . join(", ", sort {$a cmp $b} keys %$format) . "\n"); } print "1\n";