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in reply to Parsing file and joining content into string

Take a look at the special variable $/ AKA $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR. If you set it to 'END', then your read will return all the data a paragraph at a time. Slice 'n' dice of the paragraph is left as an exercise.

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