That's got it Athanasius, thank you. Once you explained what I was doing and showed the folly of capturing what I didn't need, it all came together.

0. Amber B. was harmed by J.
1. Kim B. was harmed by B F K.
2. Kim W. was harmed by A I J.

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The regexes are much tidier now. I still think I need to strip off whitespace on the RHS. I suppose I could try to roll it all into one if I get ambitious, but I think it adds legibility to make it a different step:

  for (@name) {
    s/\s+$//;
    my $int = s/^(\d+\.\s+\w+\s+\w).*$/$1\. /;
    say "int is $int"; 
  }

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  for  (@harm) {
    s/\s+$//;
    my $int = s/^\d+\.\s+(\w.*)$/was harmed by $1\./;
    say "schmint is $int";
  }

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This will do nicely for now, but I'm open to any other opinions.

In reply to Re^2: combining lists along with a regex by Aldebaran
in thread combining lists along with a regex by Aldebaran

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