in reply to mutual exclusion of regexes

Using a hash keyed on the regex e.g. untested...
my @regexes = qw/re_1 re_2 re_3 re_4 .../; my %result = (); foreach my $re (@regexes) { $result{$re} += $string =~ /$re/; } # Save the number of matched regexes my $count = grep defined $_ && $_ > 1, values %result;
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))