Shenanagians! I call Shenanagians! blakem broke the rules ;)

The original stipulations stated that the arguments would be supplied via command line; here is the shortest I came up with with that:

open(T,"$ARGV[0]");
foreach(@_=<T>){/$ARGV[1]/?print@_[$c..$ARGV[2+$c],exit:$c++}
close(T)

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Unfortunately, much space is taken up by the $ARGV. Also, note that by changing the exit to a "\n" (or removing it completely) will cause the code will print $ARGV[2] lines for ALL matches. Leaving the exit causes only the first batch to print.

Update:
I can cheat too (using blakem's arguments as an example): 

perl -ne "print((<>)[0..3])if/ou/" test.txt

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and completely floor him; but, as I said, that would be cheating ;)

In reply to Re: Reading a pattern and a number of lines after it by jryan
in thread Reading a pattern and a number of lines after it by simon.proctor

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