On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:24:22PM +0100, Jos� Castro wrote:
> So suppose you want a regular expression to match at least one of
> three words:
> 
> /word1|word2|word3/
> 
> What solution would you use if you wanted at least _two_ of those
> three words?

> Isn't there a neater (and probably twisted, of course) way of saying
> /match at least $x of the words in @words/

This is fwp. I would use this perlish solution:

@a = $x =~ /word1|word2|word3/g;
$count = scalar @a;

-Sven
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