Welcome to the Monastery, catfish1116!

Please put your programming code within <code>code here...</code> code tags, per Writeup Formatting Tips.

For the Monks, here it is formatted and within proper tags:

use v5.12;
use warnings;

my $Namelist = 'Wilma Fred Barney Betty Dino';

if ( $Namelist ~= m/\w+a/) {
    print "Matched|$<$&>$|\n";
    say "The name that matched was $1 \n";
} 
else {
    print "No match: \n";
}
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