You could replace your source data with this:
my @NIC = split("\n", `ip link | sed -n 1~2p | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' '`);
and go from there, though that's not really the Perl way :P

A more perlish way would be like this: 
my @raw_data = `ip link`;
my @NIC = grep { /^\d+:\ /; } @raw_data;

for (@NIC) {
    chomp;
    s/^[0-9]+:\ ([a-z]+[0-9]*):\ .*$/$1/;
}
Data::Dump::dd(@NIC);

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(For some reason map { s/^[0-9]+:\ ([a-z]+[0-9]*):\ .*$/$1/; } grep ... doesn't seem to work).

In reply to Re: Remove text after and before by Neighbour
in thread Remove text after and before by muizelaar

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