Re^3: how to check for a word in a file and if found remove that line, the above line and the below line from the file.

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in thread how to check for a word in a file and if found remove that line, the above line and the below line from the file.

If you are going to read the whole file into memory you also allow for the following solution which seems more simple and direct than working with splice.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $file_content = do {
    local $/ = undef;
    <DATA>;
};

$file_content =~ s/
    (?:.*\n)?
    ^X{5}.*\n
    (?:.*\n)?//xmg;

print $file_content;

__DATA__
XXXXX
Aoooo
XXXXX is my name
Boooo
11111
22222
33333
Coooo
XXXXX is what I play
Doooo
44444
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Ron

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