You need to get fancier in your parsing. You need to examine each line as it comes in, determine if it's a continuation (presuming leading whitespace indicates this, going from your example data) and (if not) append to the "current line". Once you're sure you have a full line, then process it and clear out the current line. Handwavy, vague outline: 

my $current_line = q{};
while( defined( my $line = <> ) ) {
  chomp( $line );

  if( $line =~ m{^ \s+ \w+ }x ) {
    $current_line .= $line;
    next;
  } else {
    _process_line( $current_line );
    $current_line = $line;
  }
}

if( $current_line ) {
  _process_line( $current_line );
}

sub _process_line {
  my( $line ) = $shift;
  ## do whatever . . .
}

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Update: Fuller example with sample data and fixing a bugglet first time through loop.

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In reply to Re: Manually incrementing @ array during for by Fletch
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