I recently had the opportunity to use brian d foy's post about how to use smart matching to test against many regexes. This is for a web crawler to check my work site for bad links (and to gather links for accessibility testing).

The smart matching doesn't seem to be working. Here is my test code:

use 5.010;

my $string = q(foo);

my @patterns = map { qr/$_/i } qw( foo ba(r|z) quux );

say @patterns;

if( $string ~~ @patterns ) {
 say q(matched);
}

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...and this is the output:

gizmo@veterok: <bash>[~/dev/smart_match_regex_test]
$ ./test.pl 
(?i-xsm:foo)(?i-xsm:ba(r|z))(?i-xsm:quux)

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I am rather befuddled why this isn't working and what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks,
gizmo

In reply to string/array smart match regex failing me by gizmo_mathboy

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