Thanks again for your help, I have a question if you have time, I notice in some cases in the file I am trying to parse that there maybe 7 lines of info per ID and in other cases only 5. 
my %records;

while (! eof (DATA)) {
    my $line1 = <DATA>;
    next unless defined $line1 and $line1 =~ /^01KV/;

    $_ = <DATA> for my ($line2, $line3, $line4, $line5, $line6, $line7
+);
    my $id = substr $line1, 2, 9;

   $records{$id} = [$line1, $line2, $line3, $line4, $line5, $line6, $l
+ine7];

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If I add line6 and line7, I notice that IDs with only five lines will also grab the first two lines of the next record. How can I dynamically account for IDs with more than 5 record lines? Thanks!

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