I tend to get suspicious when I see stuff like:
This problem must be solved with a regex (for other reasons).
Because it means you are artificially restricting the implementation to something that doesn't work well, except when you are toying with the language instead of doing real work with it. Often the case with doing homework, but I won't go that far to accuse you of doing a homework problem using the resources of the monestary. {grin}

The problem you ask is not solved well by a regex. Certainly, you can see if a string has both "d4" and "b2" in it using two forward lookaheads: 

my $good = $string =~ /^(?=.*?(\s|^)d4(\s|$))(?=.*?(\s|^)b2(\s|$))/;

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But this is not particularly efficient, nor will any solution be efficient if you restrict your implementation to "must be solved with a regex".

Please explain the need for a regex.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Set theory in regexs by merlyn
in thread Set theory in regexs by dcorbin

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