The first mistake most make when creating a complex regex is to use $1,$2, et al. Just capture everything into an array. This is not guaranteed to work for everything you throw at it, but it works for the data you have given: 
my @line;
foreach my $line (@data_file) {
   @line = $line =~ /
      (\d+)\s+                # first numbers
      ([^\d]+)                # full name
      (.*)?(?:\w\w)\s+        # street address
      (\w\w)\s+               # state
      (\d{5})\s+              # zip
      (\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})\s+  # phone
      (.*)                    # the rest
   /x;
   print join('|',@line),"\n";
}

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And here is a play by play breakdown ;) Hope this helps, anything more might require something smarter like Parse::RecDescent.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Parse mailing addresses with a regex by jeffa
in thread Parse mailing addresses with a regex by data67

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