Hi Monks,

I have a question reqarding printing x lines above and below a string found in a file. Currently I have the following code which identifies the string and prints the string and one line below. How would we modify this to print lets say 5 lines above and below the string?

I have searched but cant seem to find anything that does both. Most of what I found print either lines after or before when a string variable is found in the file. I am also not sure the way I have it is the best way to move forward with... Thanks for your input.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

$hits=0;
$string_to_find="string";
$file = "filename";

open   (LOGFILE, $file);

while($line = <LOGFILE>) {
if ($line =~ /$string_to_find/i) {
$hits++;

print "$line";
print scalar <LOGFILE>;

}
}
close(LOGFILE);

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