I'm responding again to this idea because your suggestion gained traction with me as I puzzled out a solution. I managed to eliminate the counters, as you suggested, and the code executes more efficiently now. Here's what that portion is now reduced to: 
next if ( ($regex1) 
    && ( (($accpyn1) && ($line1 !~ m/$regex1/o)) 
    || (!($accpyn1) && ($line1 =~ m/$regex1/o)) )
    );    
next if ( ($regex2) 
    && ( (($accpyn2) && ($line2 !~ m/$regex2/o)) 
    || (!($accpyn2) && ($line2 =~ m/$regex2/o)) )
    );    
next if ( ($regex3) 
    && ( (($accpyn3) && ($line3 !~ m/$regex3/o)) 
    || (!($accpyn3) && ($line3 =~ m/$regex3/o)) )
    );    
next if ( ($regex4) 
    && ( (($accpyn4) && ($line4 !~ m/$regex4/o)) 
    || (!($accpyn4) && ($line4 =~ m/$regex4/o)) )
    );

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And with that logic, the counters became unnecessary. So thank you for the suggestion--it has been put to practical use.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^2: Efficient regex search on array table by Polyglot
in thread Efficient regex search on array table by Polyglot

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