in reply to find words around a word in a file.

Following GrandFather's advice:

use strict; use warnings; use Lingua::EN::Bigram; my $text = q{i ain't going home they are going school. sam isn't going to lunch. "Going going gone!" quoth the auctioneer}; my $ngrams = Lingua::EN::Bigram->new; $ngrams->text( $text ); my @trigrams = $ngrams->ngram( 3 ); for ( @trigrams ) { print "$_\n" if ( split )[1] eq 'going'; }

Output:

ain't going home are going school isn't going to . going going going going gone