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    Christopher> It no longer croaks but then no longer works.  I do
    Christopher> not get anything in $@ afterwards.  I need a way to
    Christopher> validate the regex and if it is invalid remove it
    Christopher> from the @search list.

my @re = qw( a.b cd? ?bad go{2}d );
my @valid;

for( 0..$#re ) {
  eval qq{qr/$re[$_]/};
  if( $@ ) {
    warn "Problem with re $_:\n$@"
  } else {
    push @valid, qr/$re[$_]/
  }
}


Or more succinctly (but without the warnings):

my @re = qw( a.b cd? ?bad go{2}d );
my @valid = grep eval qq{qr/$_/}, @re;

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