Hi monks, while trying out different possibilities for Anonymous Monks question Select data between a START and END pattern, i did 
# cat mt
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

@test = (
    "192.168.1.1 index.html index 5 seconds",
    "192.168.1.1 links.html links, index.html index 10 seconds ",
    "192.168.1.1 article1.html  art1, article2.html art2, adpage 200 s
+econds",
);

foreach (map { /[\d\.]+\s(.+)\sseconds/i } @test) { print "Test Data: 
+$_\n" };

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The result is what i have wanted. 
# ./mt
Test Data: index.html index 5
Test Data: links.html links, index.html index 10
Test Data: article1.html  art1, article2.html art2, adpage 200

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As often as not i had the feeling perl "knows" what i want to do in this case too. That's a fact i like it so much for. But actually i don't know why it does so because i expected to evaluate $1.

In reply to maps implicit "$1-handling" by tos

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