This is the obvious way to check if $string matches any regex in @regex: 
@regex = ( 'foo' 'b[a-z]' );
$string = 'foo';

my $matched = 0;
foreach $test ( @regex ) {
    $matched++ if ($string =~ m/$test/);
}

if ($matched) {
...

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There must be a shorter, simpler way. Can you think of one? The reverse, matching a single regex against an array of strings, is simply: 
if ( grep($regex, @strings) {
...

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But here we need to do the opposite, matching one string to many regexes (to see if ANY match). I'm thinking map() may come to the rescue, but I'm not in the habit of using it, so I'm missing something. I tried: 
if ( map(string =~ /$_/, @regex) ) {
...

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Ray B. Morris support@webmastersguide.com

In reply to Matching an array of regexes (grep in reverse) by raymor

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