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If each entry is just like this, that is, terminated with \n}\n, you could just set $/ to \n}\n, read in the records one by one and print if there's a match.

If the BiBTeX file is a bit more of a mess, you will have to parse the file. Text::Balanced might help you, or Parse::RecDescent, depending on how exactly the file looks like.

Abigail