Nobody so far has mentioned your /g option on the regular expression check. If you're just looking for a yes/no on each line, then you can drop the /g. If you want to count multiple occurrences in the same line (such as 'l's in 'hello wally') then you will need to do something like catch m/.../g into an array, then count those elements.

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