Re^4: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number

Since you know your data format:

use strict; use warnings;

print $_ =~ s/\|.*//r for grep { /^\D/ } map { split /^-\s*/ } <DATA>;

__DATA__
-       Anne Green|  Manufacturing Engineer at Emerson â&#128;¦ ·
-       3,600+ Dental Lab Jobs in Burlingame, CA |  ... Director (47) 
+Executive (10) See more. ... Lab jobs in Burlingame, CA.
-       85 Clinical Laboratory Scientist Jobs in Mountain View, CA ...
+  › Dental Scientist Jobs 85 Clinical Laboratory Scientist jobs in Mo
+untain View, CA on LinkedIn. Leverage your professional network, ... 
+Burlingame, California (4) Dublin, California (2)
-       152 Laboratory Technician Jobs in South San Francisco, CA ... 
+ Jobs › Dental Technician Jobs LinkedIn has 152 Dental Technician job
+s in South San Francisco, ... 1-2 years of previous academic or comme
+rcial lab experience a plus. ... Burlingame, CA, US. â&#128;¦
- Jim Bob| Chief IP Arachnologist at Some Recruitment Firm, Inc.
-       130 Quality Control Director Jobs in Mountain View, CA ...  Jo
+bs › Quality Control Director Jobs New Quality Control Director jobs 
+added daily. LinkedIn. Sign in; ... Burlingame, California (1) Compan
+y. Relypsa (7) Aramark (3) Think Surgical (3) Cushman ...
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$ perl 1186828.pl
Anne Green
Jim Bob
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( Note Perl 5.14 required for s///r )

Hope this helps!

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

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Re^5: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2017 at 17:35 UTC
Thanks this does help! Your example above and using the following regex tester has really helped: https://regex101.com. I do have one question for you or anyone as I've been doing a lot of reading and I think I've found a simpler way to do what I want. How can I match a hyphen followed by a name with a regex? I have the following code that doesn't match. If I add an or "\|" between the statements I do match but I don't want an or, I want and and. `(?:^-)(?=[A-Z]'?[-a-zA-Z]+$)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 03, 2017 at 17:41 UTC
What is "a name"? Would the following be names? `d'Artagnan O'Reilly 't Hooft de Figuera van der Vaart` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 03, 2017 at 18:58 UTC
Some other names not matching the simple Firstname Lastname scheme: Mariae Gloria Prinzessin von Thurn und Taxis, born "Mariae Gloria Ferdinanda Joachima Josephine Wilhelmine Huberta Gräfin von Schönburg-Glauchau" His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Great Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Order of Australia, Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Aide-de-camp to Her Majesty. Don't ask for his mother's full name. Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker Sting Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderrahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi, originally known as "Siddig", later "Siddig El Fadil", and now "Alexander Siddig" Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger Anna Elisabeth Franzisca Adolphina Wilhelmina Ludovica Freiin von Droste zu Hülshoff, commonly known as "Annette von Droste-Hülshoff" Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow, short name "Vicco von Bülow", pseudonym "Loriot" Handling names in computers just sucks. Stuffing them into separate database fields sucks even more. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re^8: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Apr 03, 2017 at 23:35 UTC
Re^9: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 08, 2017 at 07:43 UTC
Re^7: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2017 at 17:56 UTC
In my case my names are FistName LastName so your names above are correct but they would be first name last name combinations like: - Pat O'Reilly - Tony Smith - Jane de Figuera	[reply]
Re^8: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 03, 2017 at 18:02 UTC
Re^9: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2017 at 18:39 UTC
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Re^8: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Apr 03, 2017 at 20:22 UTC