This works (i would have to run but will explain later if needed, and yes it assumes a lot (for instance that the stuff in NAME NAME will be all \w chars) but maybe it will give you a nudge in the right direction:

use strict;

my $stuff = <<EOF;
JUNK
JUNK

NAME NAME
PANE

THIS IS OTHER JUNK

BAH
EOF


if ($stuff =~ m/(\w+ \w+)\nPANE/) {
    print $1;
}  ;
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as for part 2. you are probably using a greedy .*, which would probably be alleviated by changing it to .*? or better yet [^"]+

update: You say that you are left with a result like this:

abcddeds.    name name pane pane date
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so you can try something like so:

use strict;

my $string = ' abcddeds.    name name PANE pane date';

if ($string =~ /(\w+       #one or more word chars (alphanumeric plus 
+_ matched)
                 \s+       #at least one space
                 \w+       #one or more word chars
                )          #close capturing parens
                \s+        #another space
               pane        #matches pane
               /ix         #"i" makes it case insensitive x makes it s
+o
                           #i can add comments
 ) { print $1; }
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you should really take a look at perlre, and try to figure out why what I initially wrote failed against what you say the results looked like. Again though I took a lot of liberty in assuming that "name name" would contain a only alphanumeric chars. The i modifier was added as initially you had PANE, and now it is pane.

-enlil