Ok, here's (hopefully) a more complete example: Example strings to match: 
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr1
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr2
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr3
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr4
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr5
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-cr6
confederation-as-router: 1 2345 atlanta1-sr1

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open (FILE2, $file_2) or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; while (<FILE2>) { if ($_ =~ s/^confederation-as-router\:\W+\d\W+\d+\W//) { push(@file2, $_); } } </CODE> Currently, the regex will return: 
atlanta1-cr1
atlanta1-cr2
atlanta1-cr3
atlanta1-cr4
atlanta1-cr5
atlanta1-cr6
atlanta1-sr1

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Based upon the above example, I want it to ONLY return: 
atlanta1-sr1

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Is that clearer?

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