foreign exchange revenue currency revenue #### use strict; use warnings; my $FX_growth; if ($text=~/\b(?:(revenues?|sales|growth)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,4}?(currency|foreign\Wexchange)|(currency|foreign\Wexchange)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,4}?(revenues?|sales|growth))\b/i) { $FX_growth =()= $text =~ /\b(?:(revenues?|sales|growth)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,4}?(currency|foreign\Wexchange)|(currency|foreign\Wexchange)\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,4}?(revenues?|sales|growth))\b/gi; } else { $FX_growth=0; }