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 ...

[download]
$ perl 1186828.pl
Anne Green
Jim Bob

[download]
( Note Perl 5.14 required for s///r )

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^4: regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by 1nickt
in thread regex to return line with name but not if it has a number by Anonymous Monk

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