You have 2 options that I can think of off the top of my head.

Do an 'index' inside a 'substr'
or a regex and capture the result to $1.

Resources:
  • index
  • substr
  • perlre

    Example of index/substr solution: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $look_for = 'foobar';
my $string = 'this whole script is foobared';

my $result = substr($string,index($string,$look_for),length($look_for)
+);

print $result;

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    Attempt at the regex: 
    $str =~ /(Version\s+\d+\.\d+)/;
$result = $1;

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    grep 
    grep> cd pub
grep> more beer

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    In reply to Re: extracting a substring? by grep
    in thread extracting a substring? by CHRYSt

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