Bingo! The /s did the trick.

Sorry for not supplying the input. For those interested, here's a quick test.

use strict;

my $lsdata;
while (<>) {
   $lsdata .= $_;
}

# Add the /s option to make this work
my @table = $lsdata =~ m/(<tr.*?<\/tr>)/g;

print $#table;

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And here's some sample data to use:

<!-- Generated HTML --><html><head><title>Now Playing</title><meta htt
+p-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><h1>Now Pla
+ying</h1>
<table cellpadding="7" width="100%">

<tr bgcolor="E5E5C5">
<th width="1%">
<th width="1%">Source</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th width="5%">Date</th>
<th width="5%">Size</th>
<th width="5%">Links</th></tr>

<tr bgcolor="F5F595">
<td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><img src="logo-65725.png" alt="BBCAMHD
+-W"></td>
<td align="left" valign="top"><b>TV Show Title</b><br>TV Show Descript
+ion</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" nowrap>Sat<br>4/14</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" nowrap>1:01:00<br>6.03 GB</td>
<td align="center" valign="top" nowrap><a href="download/tv-show-file-
+name">Download MPEG-PS</a><br><a href="download/tv-show-file-name</a>
+</td></tr>

<tr bgcolor="F5F595">
<td align="center" valign="top"><img src="images/folder.png"></td>
<td>
<td valign="top"><b>Folder Name</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top" nowrap>Fri<br>4/13</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">2 items<br></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><a href="TiVoConnect?Command=QueryCont
+ainer&amp;Container=%2FNowPlaying%2F17%2F55067240">folder</a></td></t
+r>

</table>2 items, <a href="index.html?Recurse=Yes">classic</a>.<p><font
+ size="-2">This feature is not supported. The TiVo license agreement 
+allows you to transfer content to up to ten devices within your house
+hold, but not outside your household.  Unauthorized transfers or dist
+ribution of copyrighted works outside of your home may constitute a c
+opyright infringement. TiVo reserves the right to terminate the TiVo 
+service accounts of users who transfer or distribute content in viola
+tion of this Agreement. </font></body></html>

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Without the /s option, the test code shows "-1" (no matches). With it, it shows "2" (3 matches - which is correct).

Thanks again, all!

In reply to Re^2: Why isn't my global matching regex working? (update: /s modifier) by jdseymour
in thread Why isn't my global matching regex working? by jdseymour

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