Re^2: and or statement

Agree heartily with previous respondents, ikegami and AnomalousMonk: Your intent is unclear.
Your sample data (which sometimes makes our crystal balls more useful) is missing.
...and, further re ikegami's solution:

If your $element = "WEED BECAUSE PIPES KILLD THE PIES WITHOUT DIAL. PIPES ARE NOT GOOD FOR PIES.";

his multi-regex solution will tolerate use of /g, and -- with the addition of this code,

if (@matches) {
    for ( @matches ) {
    say $_;
    }
 }
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-- will produce this output:

WEED
DIAL
PIES
PIES
KILLD
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Re^3: and or statement by endsin1m (Initiate) on Nov 08, 2011 at 01:14 UTC
I like it yes that will work nicely. Sorry it was just a module of a larger piece to find motifs in a fasta formatted data set containing multiple fasta sequences from a file which I input as asked. I parsed the fasta sequence w/ a foreach loop and after each is parsed it runs this (match) part of the loop on the sequence data to discover whether the sequence contains the motifs or patterns. I only need one match per pattern, but have multiple patterns and require ID of each match case (ie only return pies once despite the number of occurrences; if pies and weed is found multiple times return both, but only once to indicate presence.	[reply]

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Re^3: and or statement
by endsin1m (Initiate) on Nov 08, 2011 at 01:14 UTC

I like it yes that will work nicely. Sorry it was just a module of a larger piece to find motifs in a fasta formatted data set containing multiple fasta sequences from a file which I input as asked. I parsed the fasta sequence w/ a foreach loop and after each is parsed it runs this (match) part of the loop on the sequence data to discover whether the sequence contains the motifs or patterns. I only need one match per pattern, but have multiple patterns and require ID of each match case (ie only return pies once despite the number of occurrences; if pies and weed is found multiple times return both, but only once to indicate presence.

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