in reply to Removing leading and ending text?
$a="<title>stuff</title> <br>Header</br> <tr> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> <br>Trailing Info"; print $a if $a=~s#\A.*?(<tr>.*<\/tr>).*?\Z#$1#smi; [download]