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You need to keep a buffer containing the lines you may need to throw away and print lines from the buffer when you know that they won't be thrown away. This stuff is tricky to get right because you have to correctly handle special cases for start up and ending conditions. Here's one way to do it:

use strict; use warnings; my $kPreLines = 1; my $kPostLines = 1; my $skipping; my @bufferedLines; while (defined (my $line = <DATA>) || @bufferedLines) { push @bufferedLines, $line if defined $line; while (@bufferedLines && $skipping) { shift @bufferedLines; --$skipping; } print shift @bufferedLines while @bufferedLines > $kPreLines + 1; next if !@bufferedLines; if ($bufferedLines[-1] =~ /XXXXX/) { $skipping = $kPostLines; @bufferedLines = (); next; } next if defined $line; print @bufferedLines; last; } __DATA__ QQQQQ PPPPP XXXXX is my name YYYYY KKKKK UUUUU BBBBB CCCCCC XXXXX is what I play KKKKK NNNNN

Prints:

QQQQQ KKKKK UUUUU BBBBB NNNNN
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