Maybe the following. As jdporter did, I have put your sample data in a file named 782426.pl.

The first record in your sample data appears to be incomplete. I have discarded it. Similarly, the last record appears to be an exception and I have discarded that also.

use strict;
use warnings;


my $file = '782426.pl';
open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "$file: $!";
my @records = do { local $/ = "\032"; <$fh> };
close($fh);


# Discard first and last records
shift(@records);
pop(@records);

foreach (@records) {
        chop;   # remove trailing \032 (record separator)
        s/^[^\.]*\.+\s*//gm;
        # Do what you want with the record here
        print "\n****\n$_\n";
}

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update: removed useless substitution (s/^$//gm) from loop.

In reply to Re: Text Extraction by ig
in thread Text Extraction by sonicscott9041

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