in reply to Pattern matching across an array

Assuming you want every element of your array to match then you can simpy use a grep e.g
my @array1 = qw( foo bar baz ); my @array2 = qw( foo b4r baz ); for my $a (\@array1, \@array2) { print "invalid: @$a\n" if grep !/^[a-z]+\z/, @$a; } __output__ invalid: foo b4r baz

HTH

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