Hello monks,

I've looked through the documentation and the internet, but found no answer so far, so here is my question.

I've got an array, say (a, b, c, d), and i've got a file, which contain lines which will on won't match with one of the array elements.
So, I'm looking for a shorter and more efficient way to match the lines with the array elements than a foreach() (or a for() for what that matters), like

my @array = qw(a b c d);
open(my $file, myfile.txt);
while (<$file>) {
       if ($_ =~ $array[0..$#array]) { ## instead of: foreach(@array)
              print "Matches!\n";
       }
}

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As i already tested by myself, the match part won't work, so any help will be appreciated (if there's of course a solution, otherwise i'll surrend and use a foreach().

Thanks in advance

In reply to Regex and array by Deus Ex

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