in reply to using grep to match more than two words

Another way to do it would be to use regex look-aheads in alternation (Sun followed by Moon or Moon followed bu Sun) and do a match against the array interpolated into a string.

use strict; use warnings; my @arrays = ( [ qw{Sun Moon Venus Pluto Neptune} ], [ qw{Jupiter Mercury Moon Io} ], [ qw{Europa Moon Ganymede Sun Earth} ], [ qw{Venus Sun Saturn Titan} ], ); my $rxSunAndMoon = qr {(?x) (?:\bSun\b(?=.*\bMoon\b)) | (?:\bMoon\b(?=.*\bSun\b)) }; foreach my $raRocks ( @arrays ) { print qq{Array: @$raRocks\n}; print qq{@$raRocks} =~ $rxSunAndMoon ? qq{ Found Sun and Moon\n} : qq{ No match\n}; }

The output is

Array: Sun Moon Venus Pluto Neptune Found Sun and Moon Array: Jupiter Mercury Moon Io No match Array: Europa Moon Ganymede Sun Earth Found Sun and Moon Array: Venus Sun Saturn Titan No match

I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

JohnGG