Hello Monks, im in seek of your wisdom once again.

I have this string: 

my $text = "This is a test for the word blue more things blue and then
+ some very large text with a lot of things blue and done";

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In this string there are several instances of the word blue. What im trying to do is fetch the text around the words "blue". So i have this regexp: 
my $WANT = "blue";

my @results = $text =~ m/(?:\w+\s+){0,5}
                 (?:$WANT)
                 (?:\s+\w+){0,5}
                /xgi;

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Basically what it does it finds from 0 to 5 words before the word "blue" and the same after the word "blue". This gives me the next results: 
a test for the word blue more things blue and then
with a lot of things blue and done

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But then I realized that in the first result line a word "blue" appears on the 5 words after the word "blue".

So I thought that maybe I could change the regexp to find the 5 words after the word "blue" in case the word "blue" is in the words around "blue".

Maybe I could give an example, my desired result would be: 

a test for the word blue more things blue and then some very large
with a lot of things blue and done

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What I tried without sucess was this: 
my $WANT = "blue";

my @results = $text =~ m/(?:\w+\s+){0,5}
                 (?:$WANT)
                 (?:\s+\w+){0,5}
                 (?:
                 \s+(?:$WANT)
                 (?:\s+\w+){0,5}
                 )?
                /xgi;

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I hope you can understand my problem.

Thanks in advanced for any help.

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In reply to regexp matching around a word by kidd

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