You can use seek to 'rewind' a file handle...

while(<$fh>) {
    # Make a note of the line length 
    # in case we need to rewind $fh
  my $line = length;
  chomp;

    # ...

  if ( /^\d-RECORD$/ ) {
      # rewind $fh to the beginning of 
      # the current line, so <$fh> can 
      # re-get it.
    seek( $fh, 0 - $line, 1 );
    last;
  }
    # ...
}
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    --k.