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The /.+,/ ... is only returning the number of matches ...

Not that it makes any difference (the logic is still wrong), but it's returning the success of the match:

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "my @strings = ('x,x', 'yy,yy,yy', 'z,zzz,z,zz', 'foo'); ;; my @ra = map { [ $_, /[xyz]+,/ ] } @strings; dd \@ra; ;; @ra = map { [ $_, /[xyz]+,/g ] } @strings; dd \@ra; ;; @ra = map { [ $_, scalar(/[xyz]+,/) ] } @strings; dd \@ra; ;; dd \@strings; " [["x,x", 1], ["yy,yy,yy", 1], ["z,zzz,z,zz", 1], ["foo"]] [ ["x,x", "x,"], ["yy,yy,yy", "yy,", "yy,"], ["z,zzz,z,zz", "z,", "zzz,", "z,"], ["foo"], ] [["x,x", 1], ["yy,yy,yy", 1], ["z,zzz,z,zz", 1], ["foo", ""]] ["x,x", "yy,yy,yy", "z,zzz,z,zz", "foo"]
See Regexp Quote-Like Operators (in perlop) -> /PATTERN/msixpodualgc -> "Matching in list context".

Update: Edited code example for space.