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Here is an example that demonstrates how I would approach something like this:

cat foo.txt
fred barney betty wilma dino
george jane elmo judy

#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;

# Pull out all those words containg the letter e
my $file = 'foo.txt';

open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Cannot open $file:$!";

my @matches;

while (my $line = <$fh>) {
    chomp($line);
    my @wanted = $line =~ m/\b(\w*?e\w*?)\b/g;
    push @matches, @wanted;
}

print for @matches;
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Which prints..

fred
barney
betty
george
jane
elmo
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Hope this heps,
Darren :)

In reply to Re: Best way to get all of the matches? by McDarren
in thread Best way to get all of the matches? by Anonymous Monk

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