use strict; use warnings; use re 'eval'; #use re 'debug'; use Data::Dumper qw( Dumper ); my $amount = shift; my @bills = (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100); my $choices = join "\n ", map { "( .{$_} (?{ my \%r = \%{\$^R}; \$r{$_}++; +{ \%r } }) )*" } @bills; my $regexp = qr/ ^ (?{ +{} }) $choices $ (?{ push(@matches, $^R) }) (?!) /x; print($regexp, "\n"); our @matches; ('.' x $amount) =~ $regexp; print(Dumper(\@matches));