Hello everyone, I have a problem that stumps me. Better illustrated by the code snippet: 
my $ref->{number} = 123;
my $arg = shift ( @ARGV ) ;
my $regex = qr/(one|two|three|four)/;

for (1..10) {
  if ( ref $ref eq 'HASH' and $arg =~ /$regex/ig ) {
    print "$arg matches\n";
  } else {
    print "$arg doesn't match\n";
  }
}

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Executed we get: 
C:\src>perl monks.pl one
one matches
one doesn't match
one matches
one doesn't match
one matches
one doesn't match
one matches
one doesn't match
one matches
one doesn't match

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The perl version and OS doesn't matter, it displays the same behavior in Linux & Windows. Perl 5.8 and Perl 5.12. Any ideas will be appreciated.

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