Hi,
not sure I understand what you want...
This is how I interpret your code (pls. use code tags by the way): 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $string = "abcABC123ABCabc";

# the following is using shell commands
# to do something perl can do much better...
echo `expr match "$string" 'abc[A-Z]*.2'` ;
echo `expr match "$string" 'abc[A-Z]*2'` ;

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As said - not sure what your intention is.

To test a regex, you'd use something like: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $string = "abcABC123ABCabc";
print "Regex1: ", $string =~ /abc[A-Z]*.2/, "\n" ;
print "Regex2: ", $string =~ /abc[A-Z]*2/, "\n";

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Result: 
Regex1: 1
Regex2:

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Reason: The first matches any number of uppercase characters, followed by 1 character then followed by a 2 (this regex matched once in the string, therefore 1). The second matches any number of A-Z followed by a 2 - as there is a 1 inbetween, it doesn't match.
Maybe you look after .* which will match any number of any character???
Regards,
svenXY

In reply to Re: difference between "*." and "." operators by svenXY
in thread difference between "*." and "." operators by vaibhav4947

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