G'day Ganesh Bharadwaj1,

Below is my take on a solution. I did some additional testing as follows (all successful): 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($skip, @buf);

while (<DATA>) {
    if ($skip) {
        $skip = 0;
        next;
    } 

    if (/XXXXX/) {
        @buf = ();
        $skip = 1;
    }
    else {
        push @buf, $_;
        $skip = 0;
    }

    if ($. > 1 && @buf >= 2) {
        print for @buf[0 .. $#buf - 1];
        @buf = ($buf[-1]);
    }
}

print for @buf;

__DATA__
XXXXX - additional test 1
PPPPP
XXXXX is my name
YYYYY
KKKKK
UUUUU
BBBBB
CCCCCC
XXXXX is what I play
KKKKK
NNNNN
ZZZZZ - additional test 2b
XXXXX - additional test 2a
QQQQQ - additional test 3
RRRRR - additional test 4

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— Ken

In reply to Re: 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 kcott
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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