Hello I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have the following code shown below. What I am trying to do is print the count/total number of matches seen in the regex along with the name of the match that were found.

Currently the script prints the number of matches per regex string instead of the total number. I would like to see the results as shown under "wanted results" shown below. Thanks for the help in advance!!
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>) { my $string_found = $_; my @match = ( $string_found =~ /(first_string|second_string|third_stri +ng|fourth_string|fifth_string)/gm ); print scalar @match," matches found: ",join ", ",@match, "\n"; } __DATA__ This is a test file matchme ljldjlfjd l;djfldjlf d test test test dljfldjlfjldjfldjlljdf one second_string dlfjldfj ljdfldjjf ldjfljdl dfljdlfj dfdlfj three ljfldjlj dlfjlasdj foiidufoiida matchdf dljfldsaofuoidfousdaof ladsjflasdof first_string dlfjodsuofuasdo sadoufosadu foasduf aosduf third_string __Current results__ 0 matches found: 1 matches found: second_string, 0 matches found: 0 matches found: 1 matches found: first_string, 1 matches found: third_string, __Wanted results__ 3 matches found: second_string, first_string, third_string

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