#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.014; my @matches; my @arr = qw/a1 ab2 aab3 ac4 dc5 bc6 da7 cb8 dbca9 aa0/; for $_( @arr ) { if ($_ =~ m/a/g) { say "\t regex matches $_"; push @matches, $_; } } for my $match( @matches) { say $match; }