It's really logically a one-liner 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11121971
use warnings;

my @answer =
  grep %$_,                         # ignore empty hashs
  map +{ /^\h*(.*?)\h*= (.*)/gm },  # convert a paragraph to anon hash
+ by lines
  do { local $/ = ''; <DATA> };     # get list of paragraphs

use Data::Dump 'dd'; dd \@answer;

__DATA__
..... data section same as my other example .....

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( Shown on multiple lines with comments added to avoid annoying GrandFather :)

In reply to Re: Unable to get the paragraph in the list of hashes. Getting single lines instead. by tybalt89
in thread Unable to get the paragraph in the list of hashes. Getting single lines instead. by pritesh_ugrankar

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