Here's one way: 

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Find;
my $dir = '/full/path';

my %fullpath;

my @toget = qw/foo goo moo/;

#my $pattern = join "|",@words; # bad mistake on my part

my $pattern = join "|",@toget;

find sub { $fullpath{$_} = $File::Find::name if -f $File::Find::name; 
+},$dir;

for (keys %fullpath)
{
    print $fullpath{$_};    
    if (/($pattern)/i) { print "\t$1\n" } else {print "\tNO MATCH\n";}
}

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-- Regards,
Helgi Briem
helgi AT decode DOT is

In reply to Re: matching regex on an array element w/o looping the array by helgi
in thread matching regex on an array element w/o looping the array by gnu@perl

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