use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Config; my @list = ("housekeeper" =~ /keeper/, "housekeeper" =~ /^keeper/, "housekeeper" =~ /keeper$/, "housekeeper\n" =~ /keeper$/); say "list"; say scalar(@list); print Dumper(@list); foreach(@list) { say; } my @other_list = (1 == 1, 1 == 0, 0 == 0, 1 != 0); say "other_list"; say scalar(@other_list); print Dumper(@other_list); foreach(@other_list) { say; }