is this program going to replace my original document or will it just add info to the end of it? I have the doc named 'trynashort.txt' and I'm looking for the word 'tryna' in it and I think this code should grab the 25 characters before and after it. However, when I run it, I'm not seeing much evidence that it's working. Any thoughts on how to test it? Any answers would be helpful since I'm new to perl & coding. thank you. 

my $string = quotemeta 'tryna';
my $slurp;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    open my $textfile, '<', 'trynashort.txt' or die $!;
    $slurp = <$textfile>;
    close $textfile;
}

while( $slurp =~ m/ ( .{0,25} $string.{0,25} )gisx / ) {
    print "Found $1\n";
}

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