perl one liner -  loop through list

I have a file that has hundreds of user records in it which each user record is separated with a new line

I'm using a perl command such as

perl -n00e 'print if (/^gram-20020624|^gram-20020624:Support|^david-20010801c/)' list-file.txt

This command will pull out the user records for these 3 accounts
gram-20020624   gram-20020624:Support   david-20010801c

Problem I have is I have a few hundred of the records that I need to pull out and cannot put all of them on the line of the command.

I've tried to put the list of names in a file then create a small perl script and put the list in a array then do a foreach with it but it's not working.

The one liner I used above will pull out these 3 records and look like

david-20010801c: owner=david-20010801c status=enabled
 name=David Doe
 description=
 other owners=
 double book=yes
 aces=@@o^c^wdeic^g;@@o^a^rsf^g;@^a^sf^g;@^c^^g;@^p^r^g
 email=
 time zone=
 categories=
 character set=
 language code=en
 created=Mar 10, 2005 21:53:44 GMT
 last modified=Dec 04, 2005 02:37:42 GMT
 events last modified=Jun 29, 2006 16:23:32 GMT
 todos last modified=Mar 10, 2005 21:53:44 GMT
 deletelog last modified=Mar 10, 2005 21:53:44 GMT
 number of events=36
 number of tasks=0

gram-20020624: owner=gram-20020624 status=enabled
 name=gram Morgan
 description=
 other owners=
 double book=yes
 aces=@@o^c^wdeic^g;@@o^a^rsf^g;@^a^sf^g;@^c^^g;@^p^r^g
 email=
 time zone=
 categories=
 character set=
 language code=en
 created=Feb 21, 2007 15:20:18 GMT
 last modified=Feb 21, 2007 15:34:25 GMT
 events last modified=Dec 17, 2007 15:31:51 GMT
 todos last modified=Feb 21, 2007 15:20:18 GMT
 deletelog last modified=Aug 10, 2007 11:01:58 GMT
 number of events=33
 number of tasks=0

gram-20020624:Support: owner=gram-20020624 status=enabled
 name=Travel Schedule
 description=
 other owners=
 double book=yes
 aces=@@o^c^wdeic^g;@@o^a^rsf^g;@^a^rsf^g;@^c^^g
 email=
 time zone=America/Denver
 categories=
 character set=
 language code=en
 created=Feb 21, 2007 17:14:26 GMT
 last modified=Feb 21, 2007 22:32:40 GMT
 events last modified=Dec 10, 2007 17:20:28 GMT
 todos last modified=Feb 21, 2007 17:14:26 GMT
 deletelog last modified=Nov 02, 2007 19:44:39 GMT
 number of events=142
 number of tasks=0


can someone please show me a easy way to do this, I know it there's a simple way to do this but sure not getting it to work right.

Thanks,




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