Limbic`s code is well written, but i take a different approach.
Assumptions:
a) USER, LOGIN and MORE is a kind of markup.
b) You want to process the data somehow before writing it back.
c) You are capable to write file in/output by yourself.

That leads to the following code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
{
    local $/ = "";    # paragraph mode
    while ( <DATA> ) 
    {
        chomp;
        print process_user($_);
    }
}

sub process_user 
{
    my ($user, $login, @info) = split ("\n", shift);
      
    $user  =~ s/USER //;
    $login =~ s/LOGIN //;
    @info  =  map { s/^MORE //; $_ } @info;
    
    #sample processing: add a star everywhere
    return join "\n",
      "__BEGIN__",
      "USER *$user",
      "LOGIN *$login",
      (map { "MORE *$_" } @info),
      "__END__\n";
}
__DATA__
USER 1
LOGIN date
MORE info
MORE info

USER 2
LOGIN date
MORE info
MORE info

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That produces this output: 
__BEGIN__
USER *1
LOGIN *date
MORE *info
MORE *info
__END__
__BEGIN__
USER *2
LOGIN *date
MORE *info
MORE *info
__END__

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Update:
Corrected minor typo and Limbic`s "s".

holli, regexed monk

In reply to Re: parsing a file by holli
in thread parsing a file by tcf03

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