I'd suggest walking through the file one line at a time. Some thing along the lines of the following (I don't know the sort of data structure you'd be using):

my @records = ();
my %current = ();
while (<FILE>) {
  my @line = split /\s*\|/;
  if      ($line[0] =~ /^\S/) {
    if (keys %current) {
      push @records, {%current};
      %current = ();
    }
    @current{qw/name var1 var2 var3/} = @line;
  } elsif ($line[0] =~ /^    (.*)/) {
    $current{name} .= $1;
  } else {
    # Deal with the other lines as you need to..
  }
}
push @records, {%current};
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Hope this helps.

 
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