#!perl use strict; my $text = join '|',qw(DOCTYPE html meta header); my $re = qr/$text/; my $filename = 'd:/perl/test.xhtml'; my $tidy = '..../tidy/bin/tidy.exe'; # change to your path my @msg = qx"$tidy -eq -utf8 $filename 2>&1"; for (@msg){ print $_ unless /$re/; } # line 10 column 1 - Warning: missing