Hi all,
I have a large array of strings and I would like to pull all strings from the array that contain multiple substrings. I've tried the following which does not work: 
$largeArray[0] = "this is a test";
$largeArray[1] = "this is another test";
$largeArray[2] = "that is another test";
$largeArray[3] = "test this is another";

$searchCriteria[0] = "another";
$searchCriteria[1] = "test";
if (@newArray = grep {/@searchCriteria/} @largeArray) {
   print @newArray;
}

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This returns (incorrect):
this is another test
that is another test

So using the same @largeArray, I tried the following: 
if (@newArray = grep {/another/ and /test/} @largeArray) {
   print @newArray;
}

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which returns (correct):
this is another test
that is another test
test this is another
My problem is that I cannot be certain how many elements will be in my @searchCriteria. Therefore it is not feasable to put a grep together in the latter form.
Any ideas or suggestions (or am I missing something fundamental)?

Thanks,
Brian

In reply to grep for array-of-strings from an array-of-strings by spanner

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