Hmmm. Not meaning to quibble, but I notice your inputs don't have the newlines that mine do, which I don't want in the output, as I want to provide my own as opposed to reproducing whatever I had in the input, which may or may not be a windows-appropriate list, as that is where these get printed off ultimately. I've read (in perlmonks) that s/\s+$//; is the best way to strip newlines and extra spacing on RHS. Without them I get this:

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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Now that I look at this, it isn't at all clear to me how I would accomplish that in one step with the greediness of the .*. Indeed, I don't understand why it doesn't match .* and get discarded without the s/\s+$//;:

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

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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 point about the period not needing to be escaped in the right hand part of the substitution is well-taken and reflected in the above. Thanks again.

In reply to Re^4: combining lists along with a regex by Aldebaran
in thread combining lists along with a regex by Aldebaran

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