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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

In reply to 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. by mr_ron
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. by Ganesh Bharadwaj1

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