Who spot the trick?
use strict; use warnings; my @unv; my $pos; while (<DATA>){push @unv,$.-1,$.,$.+1 if /XXXXX/;$pos=(tell DATA)-leng +th $_ unless $pos} seek DATA,$pos,0; while (<DATA>) {print unless $.-__LINE__ ~~ @unv} __DATA__ XXXXX Aoooo XXXXX is my name Boooo 11111 22222 33333 Coooo XXXXX is what I play Doooo 44444 # OUTPUT 11111 22222 33333 44444
If you spot the trick please explain it to... me!
L*

UPDATE: the trick can be avoided with a cleaner solotion assigning to $.
use strict; use warnings; my @unv; my $pos; while (<DATA>){push @unv,$.-1,$.,$.+1 if /XXXXX/;$pos=(tell DATA)-leng +th $_ unless $pos} seek DATA,$pos,0; $.=0; while (<DATA>) {print unless $. ~~ @unv}

L*

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In reply to Re^2: how to check for a word in a file... -- who spot the trick? by Discipulus
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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