The key is to do the match with the 'g' modifier in list context, then compare the result in scalar context to obtain the number of matches.

Example:

Print the lines in 'file.txt' that have the string 'for' repeated exactly 3 times:

perl -ne 'print if ( ( () = /for/g ) == 3 )' file.txt

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