On the line 
if ($TEMP1 =~ /(A-[0-9]+-[0-9]+)/) {

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You want to take the output of the pattern match. $TEMP1 isn't being altered at all, it's just being matched against. The result of the pattern match is left in $1. Try this: 
$DIR=".";
opendir CONCEPT, $DIR || die "no such dir";
while ($TEMP = readdir(CONCEPT))
{
    if ($TEMP =~ /(A-[0-9]+-[0-9]+)/) { 
        if (rename $TEMP, $1)
            { print $1; }
    }
}

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The code was editted as little as possible. Any stricting, -w'ing, and error checking is left as an excercise to the reader.

In reply to Re: renaming files... by plaid
in thread renaming files... by base_16

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