Esteemed monks!

I have the following question for ye today: How can I define a list of regular expressions over which I subsequently want to iterate?

So far, I have tried the following, alas to no avail: 
my @files = ( "File1", "File2", ... );

my @regexes = ( 'verb [\w<>]+\s+/', 'noun \w+\s+/', ... );

for my $file ( @files )
{
    my $regex = qr/shift @regexes/;

    ...

    $sizes{ $version }{ $file } ++ if /$regex/;
}

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Syntax highlighting in my editor already informs me that this is syntactically unacceptable. I also tried various ways of quoting the entries in the list ... but none of them worked. The error message received is 
Use of uninitialized value $regex in regexp compilation at ./compare.l
+exicons.pl line ...

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Presumably, it is just a small thing I am overlooking -- but I simply cannot get it. Ideally, what I want is a list of compiled regular expressions that I can simply fetch using  shift and interpolate where needed. Your help in this matter hence would be much appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards -

Pat

In reply to How to define a list of regular expressions? by pat_mc

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