my %matched; my $i; my $regex = join '|', map +($i++, "$_(?{\$matched{$i}++})")[1], map quotemeta, @pat_array; open my $LOG,'<', $InLogFilePath or die "can not open file :$!"; while (<$LOG>) { use re 'eval'; chomp; /$regex/ if $. > $InStartLineNumber; } close $LOG; for my $pattern (keys %matched) { print "$pattern\t$matched{$pattern}\n"; }