I think you may be over complicating things with a regex that is both more complicated and harder to understand than necessary?? I mean it looks like the file is a Windows dir listing? I would suggest: 
while (my $line = <$fh>)
{
    print "$line" if $line =~ /^\s+Directory of/;
}

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No need to chomp if you are just going to add the line ending back in. Forcing at least one space at the beginning of the line narrows things down a lot. Putting in "Directory of" makes it very easy to understand what line of this file you are actually looking for. Please correct me if your dataset if more complicated than you've shown.

I would also add that in my work, keying a regex to a particular column number is usually a bad idea because counting the columns can be error prone and there can be some variance if the file could have been generated with "cut-n-paste". YMMV

In reply to Re^3: How do I display only matches by Marshall
in thread (SOLVED) How do I display only matches by tem2

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