I have a large document that I needed to put anchors in. I appended a number to the end of the line. The format was " Area 1" This list goes on for hundreds of entries.

I tried to awk out the slice I wanted with the anchor but this is what I get. 

```
cat file | awk '/Area 5/{print $0}'
Area 5
Area 50
Area 51
Area 52
Area 53
Area 54
Area 55
Area 56
Area 57
Area 58
Area 59

```

As you can see I wanted just "Area 5" but the regex engine matched it with 5 and 5x. Yes, I know it is being greedy. I tried to limit that behavior with:

```
/Area 5{1}/

```

and I still had this problem. I also tried {0} and {0,1} to no effect. 

Question 1: What can I do to force awk (and grep as well) to limit it to the requested number?

Question 2: I used `awk '/pattern/ { $0=$0 "" ++i }1'` to append the number. It leaves "Area 1" I would like it to be Area1. Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.
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