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You could use the following (coarse, not fully tested, yada yada yada) approach:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; my $data; { local $/ = undef; $data = <DATA>; } print "Record: [$1]\n" while ( $data =~ /(Field 1:.*?Field 3:[^\n]+)/sg ); __DATA__ Field 1: abc Field 2: asdasdasdf Field 2: asdsaads Field 2: asdf Field 3: asfssadfsad Field 1: abc Field 2: asdf Field 3: asfssadfsad Field 1: abc
Which outputs:
Record: [Field 1: abc Field 2: asdasdasdf Field 2: asdsaads Field 2: asdf Field 3: asfssadfsad] Record: [Field 1: abc Field 2: asdf Field 3: asfssadfsad] Record: [Field 1: abc Field 2: asdasdasdf2 Field 2: asdf3 Field 3: asfssadfsad]

HTH,

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