it is easy to do with two regexes, such as: ...
Easy, perhaps, but wrong. The suggested two regexes would match a string starting with an underscore.
DB<1> $f = "_foo";
DB<2> print "Success" if $f =~ /^[\w\.]+$/ && $f =~ /^\w/;
Success
DB<3>
Update (at 7:50 UTC): sorry, the last sentence below is wrong, I had missed the $ at the end of the first pattern.
It would also accept garbage characters in the middle.
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