use strict; my $vowels="aeiou"; for my $str (qw(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz missing_vowels)) { my $tmp_v = $vowels; LOOP: { if ($str =~ /\G[^$tmp_v]*([$tmp_v])/i) { $tmp_v =~ s/$1//i; print "Succeeded: $str\n" and last LOOP unless $tmp_v; redo LOOP; } print "Failed: $str\n" and last LOOP; } }