Your point is well taken. From now on I will test my answers first.

My proposed solution is: 

use strict;
my $row1 = "newjersey-ab1.net  agg  nj1-dpta1  net  10";
$row1 =~ s/^.+\s+.+\s+(.+)-dpt.*$/\1/;
print $row1;

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As far as looking at the other answers, yes I look at them. If my approach differs from the other answers then I like to throw it out there and see what people say.

I agree with you that my answer may be inefficient; I really only starting doing Perl seriously last year. My question to anyone who cares to answer is, why is it inefficient? And is this inefficiency lost in the noise of overall execution times, or would it be a problem in real-life?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Simple Regex Question by sierrathedog04
in thread Simple Regex Question by Anonymous Monk

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