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Give your dataset, here's one option:

use strict; use warnings; local $/ = 'HDR'; while (<DATA>) { chomp; s/\n+$//; print substr( $_, 47, ( length $_ ) - 77 ), "\n" if /\S/; } __DATA__ HDR.S287878877.DDDDD.DDDDDDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX1STR HYTRES NAME PLA +CE DEST GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG11111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222223 +33333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444455 5555555555555555555555555555566666666666666777777777777FTRDDDDDDDDDDFF +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF HDR.S287878877.DDDDD.DDDDDDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX1STR HYTRES NAME PLA +CE DEST GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG11111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222223 +33333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444455 5555555555555555555555555555566666666666666777777777777FTRDDDDDDDDDDFF +FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Output:

1STR HYTRES NAME PLACE DEST GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG11111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222223 +33333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444455 5555555555555555555555555555566666666666666777777777777 1STR HYTRES NAME PLACE DEST GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG11111111111111111111122222222222222222222222222223 +33333333333333333333333333444444444444444444444444444444444455 5555555555555555555555555555566666666666666777777777777