The chances for helpful answers are much higher, if you help us reading your post.
Please use markup for formatting.
Furthermore you could make your regex much clearer by using the x-flag, adding comments and outsourcing parts into well named variables, something like this:
$item = '(?:Item|ITEM)[Ss]?';
$punctuation = '(?:\.|\-|\:|\-|\,)';
m/ $item
\s?
$punctuation
...
/x;
don't be too surprised if you can answer your question on your own after refactoring the code! ;-)
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
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