You can use grouping with the or operator within the regex, combined with word boundaries:
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature 'say';
my @strings = (
"Bob said hello\n",
"Alice doesn't like Chris\n",
"This line won't match\n"
);
for (@strings){
say "yay!" if /(?:\bAlice\b|\bBob\b|\bChris\b)/;
}
That says:
/
(?: # group, but don't capture
\bAlice\b # capture Alice, if it is standalone
| # or
\bBob\b # same as Alice above
| # or
\bChris\b # same as Alice and Bob
) # end grouping
/
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