>perl -wMstrict -le "my @lines = qw(abc 345 a1 1a a1a 1a1 abc1 1abc a1==a1 a==1); printf '@lines: '; printf qq{'$_' } for @lines; print qq{\n}; ;; printf 'and 1: '; printf qq{'$_' } for grep { /[[:alpha:]]/ && /\d/ } @lines; print ''; ;; printf 'regex 1: '; printf qq{'$_' } for grep m{ [[:alpha:]] \d | \d [[:alpha:]] }xms, @lines; print qq{\n}; ;; ;; printf 'and 2: '; printf qq{'$_' } for grep { !/[^[:alnum:]]/ && /[[:alpha:]]/ && /\d/ } @lines; print ''; ;; my $al_num = qr{ [[:alpha:]] \d | \d [[:alpha:]] }xms; printf 'regex 2: '; printf qq{'$_' } for grep m{ \A [[:alnum:]]* $al_num [[:alnum:]]* \z }xms, @lines; print qq{\n}; ;; ;; printf '@lines as was: '; printf qq{'$_' } for @lines; " @lines: 'abc' '345' 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' 'a1==a1' 'a==1' and 1: 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' 'a1==a1' 'a==1' regex 1: 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' 'a1==a1' and 2: 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' regex 2: 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' @lines as was: 'abc' '345' 'a1' '1a' 'a1a' '1a1' 'abc1' '1abc' 'a1==a1' 'a==1'