What do you actually want to achieve? Show us an example of the result you require because our mind reading units tend to be a bit flakey and don't always let us know what it is that you want.

It may be that you want this:

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    
    next if ! length;
    my ($section, $device, $culprit, $rev) =
        m/(\S+)\s+ ([^:]+):\s+ ((?:(?!\s*\(rev).)+)\s* (.*)/x;

    next if ! defined $rev;
    print "$section, $device, $culprit, $rev\n";
}

__DATA__
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (re
+v 12)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'
+97 Audio (rev 12)

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Prints:

00:1f.3, SMBus, Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus, (rev 12)
00:1f.4, USB Controller, Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2), (
+rev 12)
00:1f.5, Multimedia audio controller, Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC
+'97 Audio, (rev 12)

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DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: splitting lspci output by GrandFather
in thread splitting lspci output by rimmern

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