How to Remove the new line character inbetween a record

I have a file, in which a single record spans across multiple lines,

File 1
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14|\n 
leave request \n
accepted|Yes|
15|\n 
leave request not \n
acccepted|No|
 

I wanted to remove the '\n charecters. I used the below code (foudn somewhere in this forum)

perl -e 'while (<>) { if (! /\|$/ ) { chomp; } print ;}' input.dat > output.dat
 

The above code returns the ouptut as
line 1: 14|\n
line 2: leave request accepted|Yes| (end of record)

line3: 15|\n
line 4: leave request not acccepted|No| (end of record)

still the new line characters at the begining of the field still remains and a single record is split as two records.

My expected output is
line 1: 14|leave request accepted|Yes| (end of record)

line3: 15|leave request not acccepted|No| (end of record)

Can some one please help me in this issue?

Hi machomaddy,

That 'perl' code seems to work for me, here you have other one (perl too). It supposes that each three input lines there should be an output line:

$ cat infile
14| 
leave request 
accepted|Yes|
15| 
leave request not 
acccepted|No|
$ perl -ne 's/(?<=\|)\s*$/\n/; if ( $. % 3 ) { chomp } print' infile
14|leave request accepted|Yes|
15|leave request not acccepted|No|

Regards,
Birei