Well, if you know how many ==='s there are making up the record seperator, you can just set $/ appropriately (don't forget to local() it though). Then you can also use chomp to throw away the record seperator....

you end up with something like this

local($/) = '=================';

while(<INPUT>) {
 chomp;
 
 #Do something with your record here
}
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cephas