You could use lvalue refs:
#! perl -slw
use strict;
my $data = <<EOD;
record 1
record 2 is a bit longer
record 3 is just this length
EOD
my $p = 0;
my @refs;
while( my $o = 1+index $data, "\n", $p ) {
push @refs, \substr $data, $p, $o - $p;
$p = $o
}
print $$_ for @refs;
which works okay (from 5.8.4 (maybe 5.8.3 I forget) onwards), but don't try assigning to them unless your replacements are exactly the same length as the originals.
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