my $regex = qr{ \A # anchor at start for efficiency (?= # positive lookahead for (?: .* # anything r # with an 'r' after it ){1} # at least once ) (?= # positive lookahead for (?:.*t){1} # a 't' ) (?= # positive lookahead for (?:.*o){2} # for two 'o's ) }six; # ignore case