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D'oh!

I was having so much fun playing with one-liners that I forgot the parameters of the problem. I love that die trick.... I'll have to try it:

perl -ne '@t=(@t[1..4],$_,"---\n");die@t if/foo/' file

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Re^4: upto match please, my one-lina!!
by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Jun 09, 2006 at 09:15 UTC 
    @t=(@t[1..4],$_,"---\n")

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    You are adding two lines for every one line you remove so every second line will be "---\n".

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