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in reply to Need RegExp help - doing an AND match

Is there a reason why you want to do this with a regex? It isn't really the right tool for the job.

I would probably just use grep to get a list of the missing items.

my @words = qw( foo bar ); while (my $line = <DATA>) { chomp $line; my @missing = grep {$line !~ $_} @words; printf "line: %-10s; missing: %s\n", $line, join ',', @missing; } __DATA__ foo bar foo bar
Or use List::Util's first, which will abort the search once one is missing.
use List::Util qw( first ); my @words = qw( foo bar ); while (my $line = <DATA>) { chomp $line; my $missing = first {$line !~ $_} @words; printf "line: %-10s; missing: %s\n", $line, $missing; } __DATA__ foo bar foo bar
Note that this will only return the first missing item, and if you're searching for something like "0" then you should check whether $has_missing is defined.