Hi, I'm pretty new to Perl, and I was wondering if I could do this, and if so, if I could get some input from you guys.

What I would like to do is have a script that searches all the .log files in the current directory (where the script is located). It should then look for a certain word in each file. If it finds the word, it should write out a text file that includes the line it was found on, and the two previous lines. It should do this for each instance of the word in each file of that directory.

So if for instance the word was "hello", the text file would look something like this after one instance:

-----------------------------------------
(1) From file nameoffile.log:

.............previous line.............
.............previous line.............
...current line........hello...........
-----------------------------------------

I'm sure this can be done, but I'm just not sure where to start. If it helps, I'm on Windows 2000, using ActiveState's ActivePerl 5.6.1.626

Thanks in advance for any help!

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