So, 5 years ago I was trying to solve (efficiently) 80 regexs run over a 10K document. That quest ended in success. Now I am wrestling with filtering out lines of an array that match any entry of an array of regexs I am giving 'grep' a shot but am having a problem generalizing a single test into multiple tests.

--Thanks---
Thanks for the quick response. Another nifty tool!!

Perldoc shows: 

 @foo = grep {!/^#/} @bar;    # weed out comments

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I want to replace that single regex with a loop over an array of 'qr's. 
my @regs =(
           qr/split/ ,
           qr/se.d/ ,
           qr/open/,
           qr/print/,
           # might be another 100 in here #
           );

my @bar;
my @foo; push @foo, "still empty";

open INP , "<../IPutils.pm";  #random code
while (<INP>){ push @bar, $_; }

print @bar, "\n--EOD-----------\n";

@foo = grep{
  # !/^\s*#/   #sample from Perldocs
  #{           #causes compile error
  #(           #causes compile error

    my $final =1; #default true
    foreach my $r (@regs){
      $final = 0 if ( $r ); #match means drop this line
    }
    $final;  #last value of the block hmmmmm
  #)
  #}
}@bar;

print @foo;

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'return' shouldn't be the correct mechanism to tell grep true/false. But when I run this, the second print (@foo) produces nothing.

It is always better to have seen your target for yourself, rather than depend upon someone else's description.

In reply to grep with looped tests by Wiggins

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