Comment by mVChr

No, but the `-r` option makes it use extended regex[1]. Here's some PCRE:

    cat file | perl -ne 'print if s/(\w+) (\d+)/\1 is \2 years old/'

My only point is sometimes old school standard tools are plenty.

1: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Extended-re...