in reply to Perl regex and word boundaries

So interesting problem I've run into. I have a script for pulling hostnames in a two-node cluster. I ghettoed a bit using a bash egrep expression to determine hostnames have been added to /etc/hosts on both nodes. So I may have an /etc/hosts...

Thanks for the irrelevant back story. All you need to post is: "I have this text ..., and I want to match these lines .... This is what I tried ... How make worky?