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I encourage wisdom seekers to present sample data and use Test::More in the example code of their question. Let's look at some examples.

How do I make the regex match?

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; my $data = "Some string here"; my $regex = qr/ fancy regex here /mxis; like( $data, $regex, "Matching my regex" ); done_testing;

Your code fails, but readers can read this code and run it and make changes that will make it pass.

Why does my sub return an error?

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; sub mysub { return; } ok( mysub(), "Should return true" ); done_testing;

Presenting Larger sample data as if you were reading a file line by line.

Use __DATA__.

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Test::More; my $wanted_matches = 2; my $actual_matches = 0; my $regex = qr/ fancy regex here /mxis; while ( my $line = <DATA> ) { chomp $line; if ( $line =~ $regex ){ $actual_matches++; } } ok( $wanted_matches == $actual_matches, "Correct number of matches" ); done_testing; __DATA__ line one..... line two..... .... line ten.....