#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; { local $/ = 'keyword'; while () { next if $. == 1; chomp; y/\n//d; print "$/$_\n"; } } __DATA__ keyword1 data1 data2 data3 keyword2 data1 data2 data3 data4 data5 data6 keyword1 data1 data2 data3 data4 keyword3 data1