Trying to parse HTML with regexen will make your life unhappy. Instead use one of the many modules designed to do the job. I recommend HTML::TreeBuilder, although for dealing with tables you might also look at HTML::TableContentParser, HTML::TableParser and a slew of other HTML table munging modules.

Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

# original my $var stuff here

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
my @lines;

$tree->parse ($var);

push @lines, $_->as_text () . "\n" for $tree->find ('tr');

print join "\n", @lines[2..4];

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Prints:

 19th Ave and Eighth Street S.E. 

 Boser and Liker Trail S.E. 

 Lambert and Jerry Drive S.E.

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In reply to Re: Text Parse Question with RegEx by GrandFather
in thread Text Parse Question with RegEx by Anonymous Monk

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