Re: Regex word options

[ww]

Not exactly as you stated the problem, but an extensible approach:

C:\>perl -E "my @work=(\"I Arranged a meet.\", \"Transcribe this\"); 
for $work(@work) { 
    if ($work =~ /Transcribe||Arranged/) {
        say $work; 
    } 
}

I Arranged a meet.
Transcribe this

C:\>

The \b does nothing useful as you state your problem; alternation is better done with an ||, ("or"). Solving the captures as you need them is left as an exercise.

[choroba]

The || does not work inside a regular expression (well, it does, but it matches anything). Add some more testing strings. Use single| inside a regex, or use two regexes connected by ||.

[ww]

Alas, I erred.

The honorable choroba is correct; blame simple carelessness; intermittent, inadequate internet access in my second consecutive month on the road and my plain errror for the wrongful use of ||. As written above it should be a single Vbar; as choroba notes, it could also be written as:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.10.0;
my @work=("I Arranged a meet.", "Transcribe this", "Shud Not MATCH");
for $work(@work) {
    if (($work =~ /Transcribe/) || ($work =~ /Arranged/) ) {
          say $work; 
    } 
}