Why do you escape the < ?

Anyway parsing arbitrary html with regex is normally a waste of time.

Please show us some input to help you.

update

works for me, stripped the useless (but harmless) esacaping 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;


my $lsdata = do { local $/;<DATA> };


my @table = $lsdata =~ m/(<tr.*?<\/tr>)/g;

pp @table;

__DATA__
<tr>bla1</tr><tr>bla2</tr>
<tr>bla3</tr>

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("<tr>bla1</tr>", "<tr>bla2</tr>", "<tr>bla3</tr>")

so better inspect your input again!

update

Ah wait ... I think you need an /s modifier to make . match newlines !!! 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;


my $lsdata = do { local $/;<DATA> };


my @table = $lsdata =~ m/(<tr.*?<\/tr>)/sg;

pp @table;

__DATA__
<tr>bla1</tr><tr>bla2</tr>
<tr>bla3</tr>
  <tr>
    bla4
  </tr>

[download]

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re: Why isn't my global matching regex working? (update: /s modifier) by LanX
in thread Why isn't my global matching regex working? by jdseymour

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