Hi Chris, > It is detecting but not testing if any particular 2 words are in a > text field and I think that's what you explained you were testing for.
Sorry if my first post was misleading. Those were just some examples. I'm looking only for an occurrence of _any_ two words in that list, not a particular combination. Though the most common combo is a PO Box and a street address. > You can say: if (/box/i && /street/i) { > rather than the more complex: if ($str =~ /box/i && $str =~ /street/i) > my $address_count = () = $str =~ /box|street|avenue|lane|apo/ig; Thanks for the tips! Marc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/