Your regex groups characters using the + operator. Splitting into a list isn't the first way I would try this. Instead, I might try: 
my @groups = qw'[a-zA-Z]+ \d+ \s+';
my $matcher_pattern = join('|', (map {"($_)"} @groups, '.'));
my $pattern = '';
MATCH: while ($string =~ /$matcher_pattern/g) {
     no strict 'refs';
     for my $index (1.. scalar @groups) {
         if ($$index) {
             $pattern .= $groups[$index - 1];
             next MATCH;
         }
     }
     $pattern .= quotemeta ${scalar @groups + 1};
}
$regex = qr/$pattern/

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Update:Fixed off by one error. Update 2:Fixed metachar issue

In reply to Re^3: how can i split a string to an array and convert it into regular expression by plobsing
in thread how can i split a string to an array and convert it into regular expression by Anonymous Monk

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