Hello dear monks~

Could someone help me write a code that shows what part of the regular expression the text matched?

I have to match on bunch of words (about 15) to find the SEC filing that I want for instance "director" and "resignation."

Since I am still learning perl I was thinking of just creating separate variables indicating matched words 

  if $text=~m/\bdirector\b/ $director=1;
        if $text=~m/\bresignation\b/ $resign=1;

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Is there a way I can do it more elegantly using 

       if $text=~m/\b(director|resignation)\b/ 
# code that shows which word matched;

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Thank you again :)

In reply to What is being matched? by eversuhoshin

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