A couple of possibilities come to mind:
  1. Since you know the record length, you could use an external counter and read them in, appending them to the end of the last record read: 

    my $count = 0;
my @records = ();
while (<IN>) {
    if ($count) {
        $records[-1] .= $_;
    } else {
        push @records, $_;
    }
    $count = ++$count % 6;
}
print join("\n",@records);

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  2. You could slurp the file and split on a pattern that matches the last line: 

    my $content = do {
    local $/;
    <IN>;
    };
my @records = split /(?<=Metadata\: 1114890\n)/, $content;

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As well, I'm sure, as a multitude of other possibilities. Note that in both the above, the resulting records still contain all the original newlines.

In reply to Re: Paragraph mode?? by kennethk
in thread Paragraph mode?? by Urbs

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