Based on what you've said, I suspect you may want to look at the $/ (input record separator) variable. If your code looks something like this:

open (PAGE, $filename) || die "Can't open $filename: $!";
my $text = <PAGE>;
close PAGE || die "Can't close $filename: $!";

# parse $text somehow
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then your error is that you're asking for only one line from the file. The magic variable $/ tells Perl which character comes at the end of a line, and the < filehandle > operator gets one line from that filehandle.

The solution might look something like this:

my $text;        # outside of the block so it's in scope after we leav
+e the block
{
    local $/;
    open (PAGE, $filename) || die "Can't open $filename: $!";
    $text = <PAGE>;
    close (PAGE) || die "Can't close $filename: $!";
}
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That will temporarily undefine the input record separator and place the whole of $filename into $text. You can set $/ to anything you want, such as "\n--\n\n", if you have a better record separator in mind. ("&..&", from your example above.)