ID1>>^a ID2>>h$ ID3>>b ID4>>[a-z]{9,10} ID5>>[ah] #### id_A: abcdefg id_B: bcdefgh id_C: cdefghijk #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use autodie; open(my $regexefile, "<", "regexes.txt"); my @regexes = <$regexefile>; chomp @regexes; my %regexes = map { split(/>>/, $_) } @regexes; my %matches; open(my $inputfile, "<", "lines.txt"); while (<$inputfile>) { while (my ($id, $regex) = each(%regexes)) { my (undef, $line) = split(/ /, $_); if ( $line =~ /$regex/) { if (! defined($matches{$regex})) { $matches{$regex} = []; } chomp $line; push($matches{$regex}, $line); } } } while (my ($regex, $matches) = each(%matches)) { if (!scalar @$matches) { next; } print "$regex: No of matches " . scalar @$matches . "\n"; foreach my $match (@$matches) { print "matched $match\n"; } }