Here's what works (note that since you don't need help opening the file, i have included "test.txt" as DATA:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
        if ($_ =~ /\.|\,|\?$/ && $_ =~ /it/) {
                my @line=split / it /,$_;
                print "$line[1]";
        }   
}

__DATA__
Tim created the Module List in August 1994 and maintained it manually 
+till
April 1996. By that time Andreas had implemented the Perl Authors Uplo
+ad
Server (PAUSE) and it was happily feeding modules through to the CPAN 
+archive sites.
Since PAUSE held a database of module information which could be maint
+ained by module authors
it made sense for the module listing part of the Module List to be bui
+lt
from that database. In April 1996 Andreas took over the automatic post
+ing of
the Module List and I now maintain the other parts of the text. We pla
+n to add
value to the automation over time.
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Here's why:

line 1: note that my perl is in a different place than yours. "perl -w" is use warnings;

line 5: uses && to get rid of your nested if. also, i use $/ and not /s (i think this is the same)

line 6: split the line into a two array element on " it ", nb. the whitespace deals with "sites"

line 7: now just print the second element of the array (first=0, second=1)

There may be some weakness if you apply this to a different piece of text, but it works on that one (yes, i tested it!)

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In reply to Re: Regex capture between word and punctuation by halfcountplus
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