Your code works as is, except for the \b issue in the last regex, as mentioned by Paladin. Note however, that, unlike what Paladin says (although probably like what he meant to say), is that. \b matches any spot between a \w character (alphanumerics and _, so [A-Za-z0-9_]) and a \W character (anything that is not a \w). In your example, you have put the \b in front of a dash, which is a \W, so the character in front of that would have to be a \w, which it is not (it's a space, in fact). That regex should be /\bskipped/ (or even /\bskipped\b/ if you're paranoid).

You should also heed Paladin's warning re: the array slices. In this case you get the expected result, as your slices result in one element lists, which return the last (and only) element in scalar context.

Another possible improvement is to put your regexes in a hash or an array to avoid the repetitive code you have above. Something like this: 

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
my @txtfile=("file/path - skipped",
             "file/path - cannot verify",
             "file/path - corrupt file",
             "My camel has fleas",
            );
my @regex=('\bcannot verify',
             '\bcorrupt file',
             '\bskipped',
            );
my @outfile;
foreach my $error (@txtfile) {
  foreach (@regex) {
    push (@outfile, $error) if $error=~/$_/;
  }
}
print Dumper(\@outfile);
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          'file/path - skipped',
          'file/path - cannot verify',
          'file/path - corrupt file'
        ];

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Update: Turns out that Paladin actually did say what I thought he meant to say :). \w and \W were virtually indistinguishable in the font my browser picked for the <ul>, but he did say \W in the right places.

CU
Robartes-

In reply to Re: Example of push by robartes
in thread Example of push by dbrock

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