perl scan files and do counting for regex expression matches

[perhapscwk]

i use below try to search from "search.txt " and find any string which match the regex expression i listed from file "keywords.t xt", however, it fail. if i put keywords like

keyword1
keyword2

then it will works and display line number and keyword, but if use regex expression instead, it won't works. please help.

actually i want to run the perl script and do a counting for number of matches for each regex expression but even the simple one i tried above not works.

thanks.

open my $keywords,    '<', 'c:\perl\csv\keywords.txt' or die "Can't open keywords: $!";
open my $search_file, '<', 'c:\perl\csv\search.txt'   or die "Can't open search file: $!";

my $keyword_or = join '|', map {chomp;qr/\Q$_\E/} <$keywords>;
#my $regex = qr|\b($keyword_or)\b|;
#my $regex = qr/$keyword_or/;
my $regex = qr|($keyword_or)|;


while (<$search_file>)
{
    while (/$regex/g)
    {
        print "$.: $1\n";
    }
}

[nithinpes]

If I understood your question right, I am guessing the keywords in your keywords.txt will be something like:
keywords.txt

keyword\d
\d\d\d
p\w{7}\d

if that's the case, the line 5 of you code should be

my $keyword_or = join '|', map {chomp;qr/$_/} <$keywords>;

Using \Q will escape all special characters that follow, which may not be what you want if you are trying to pass the regex from keyword.txt as is.