Here's one way to do it, using Tie::File. A couple of caveats:

• The regex isn't bulletproof, and will likely fail if you pass it anything unusual. Read perlre and adjust to taste.
• Since this was just a quick script, it doesn't account for not finding the domain in the file.
• If anyone knows a more graceful way to add a line to the middle of a file with Tie::File, please let me know.

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict ;
use warnings ;
$|++ ;

use Tie::File ;

my $datafile = 'test_a.dat' ;

my $username = 'terry' ;
my $req_addr = 'tag@foo.com' ;

my ( $name, $domain ) = $req_addr =~ /^([\w.-]+)(@[\w.-]+)$/ ;

tie my @virtual, 'Tie::File', $datafile or die $! ;

my $row = 0 ;
$row++ until $virtual[$row] =~ $domain ;
$virtual[$row] .= "\n$req_addr\t$username\n" ;

untie @virtual ;

__END__
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