\x0a  Record stuff goes here
       more of the same record here
       yet more record data.
\x0a  Next record starts here
       and continues on for a while
       and finally terminates.
\x0a  You get the idea.  Please note
       that \x0a is a one-character ASCII code,
       not the string of characters '\x0a'.
\x0a  I probably can't rely on indents for
      record boundary checking, either.

##</code><code>##

use strict;  # I'm not a total neanderthal

$/ = /\x0a/; # also tried '\x0a'
open IN, shift;
my @records = <IN>;
close IN;

# number of records == 1 (globbed!)