#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @findle = ("fever","febbre","la fièvre","koorts"); my $size = @findle; my $number = 0; for (my $i=0; $i<$size; $i++) { if ($_ =~ /$findle[$i]/ ) { print "$_\n"; $number++; #@lines = # print ("there are : " . $number); } }