#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use diagnostics; my $infile = $ARGV[0]; my @regexes = (qr/§\s*[0-9]/, qr/Art\.\s*[0-9IVX]/, qr/Artikel\s*[0-9IVX]/, qr/Artikels\s*[0-9IVX]/, qr/Artikeln\s*[0-9IVX]/); open my $in, '<', $infile or die "Cannot open $infile for reading: $!"; my $xml; { local $/ = undef; $xml = <$in>; } my $tally; for my $i (0 .. $#regexes) { my $regex = $regexes[$i]; ++$tally[$i] while $xml =~ /$regex/g; } for my $i (0 .. $#regexes) { print "$regexes[$i]:\t$tally[$i]\n"; } close $in;