Here is my two cents' worth. I am not sure if it is what you mean. I have made the regexes deliberately somewhat convoluted :)

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

eval { action() }; if ($@) { print "error:\n$@\n"; }

sub action {

    my @a = split(/\n/,<<'ENDTEXT');
This is the text we will search through.
Normally you'd have some other source like a file.
Every line here becomes an element in array @a.
ENDTEXT

  my $rregexes = get_regexes();               # get patterns
  my @compiled  = map qr/$_/ix, @$rregexes;   # pre-compile them,
                                              # case insensitive

  print "We got ".  @$rregexes     ." regexes to test:\n";
  
  # show regexes:
  for (my $i=0;$i< @$rregexes  ;$i++) {
      print "--------\nregex $i:\n--------\n";
      print $rregexes->[$i];
  }
 
  print "\nHere we go into matching loop:\n";
  for (my $i=0;$i<@a;$i++) {
    for (my $j=0;$j<@compiled;$j++) {
      if ($a[$i] =~ /$compiled[$j]/) {
        print "$j    match: ".sprintf('%-50s',$a[$i])."<== matched\n";
      }
      else {
        print "$j no match: ".sprintf('%-50s',$a[$i])."\n";
      }
    }
  }
    
}
    
sub get_regexes {

  #
  # Could also read these from config files!
  #

  my @regexes = (); my $i = -1;

  $regexes[++$i] =<<'REGEXTEXT';
        ^              # beginning of string
            .*         # any number of chars
            normally   # 
            .*         # 
        $              # end
REGEXTEXT

  $regexes[++$i] =<<'REGEXTEXT';
        ^              # beginning of string
            .*         # any number of chars
            here       # 
            .*         # 
            element    # 
            .*         # 
        $              # end 
REGEXTEXT

  return \@regexes;
}
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