There are two main approaches to this problem insofar as I can see. The first is to strip out the bits of text that you don't want leaving the bits that you do want. The second approach is to ignore the bits you don't want and use a regex to match the bits that you do want (the records). I would be inclined to strip out the header using something along the lines of: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my ($REPFILE, $report);

undef $/;                    # Allows whole file to be slurped

open REPFILE, "sample.rep" or die "Can't open file $REPFILE: $!\n";

$report = <REPFILE>;         # All file now in report variable
                             # Only do this for reasonably sized
                             # report files or buy some memory :)

$report =~ s/^User Report//g;
$report =~ s/^Other Header Stuff//g;

print $report;

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Second approach, building a regex to strip out the data you do want is left as an exercise for the reader.

In reply to (Dermot) Re: Stripping page headers by Dermot
in thread Stripping page headers by Anonymous Monk

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