Thanks for the comments;
  Snax - you're right, I was using the opposite switch to the one I meant, but I still have the same greed problems.
  Japhy - This is new to me and it looks like the kind of solution I was after. However ?= matches nothing as (?=^ {3}\w), and I can't use \n, since then I skip my first record.

Any more ideas?
BTW: the 'record1' string is actually the first field of the record; it could be anything beginning with a \w

oh yeah, here's my test source: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my($infile,@records);

while(<DATA>) {$infile.=$;}

@records = (split(/(?=^ {3}\w)/,$infile); #returns whole list
#@records = ($infile =~ m/(^ {3}\w.*?)/sg); #returns only up to \w

print join("\n========\n",@records);

__DATA__
   record1
    field2 2345
   record2
   record3
    field1 GAGGA
    field2 7848
    field2a 5m

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