in reply to How to get previous line of the file while processing current line in while loop

Your question is "how do I implement a single element buffer"? It's easy: 
my $previous = <STDLOG>;
while (my $current = <STDLOG>) {
    print "Current line is: $current";
    print "Previous line is $previous";
    $previous = $current;
}

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