Give the code data file content of the data records, I'm unable to print the first line of each record. However, it does print the first line of the record as in: 1aaaaaaaaaaaaa Note: I'm sure there are many ways to do this using the split function, but in my case, I need a solution that follows the code question.... I think the problem is that after chomp the input record separator of __Data__, the first record gets process correctly but the first line of the other records is a blank line, and therefor, the output shows a blink line as the first line. I try using a input record separator of __Data__\n and did not chomp 

Data file content of records

1aaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa
__Data__
1bbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbb
bbbbbbbbbbb
__Data__
1cccccccccc
ccccccccccc
ccccccccccc
__Data__

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{
   local $/="__Data__";

   open my $fh,"<","logA.txt" or die "Unable to open file";
  
   while(<$fh>)
   {
      # remove the input record separator value of __Data__
      chomp;
     
      # display the line of each record

      if(/([^\n]*)\n(.*)/sm)
      {
         print "$1\n";
      }
   }
   close ($fh);
}

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In reply to How to display first line of each record using the question code by SatisfyMyStruggles

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