Good Day,
I'm new to perl and I basically write simple perl scripts to format and manipulate text files.
My script as is:

I open a textfile located on my windows file system and read in the text file lines. Script currently looks for a line within test.txt that contains a user's text input (see script below) and prints only that line. My problem:

Now the user wants to see the line of text above and the line of text below $input. Any ideas how I could enhance the script below to do this. A quick example:
If document (test.txt) contains:

fff
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd

if user types in "bbb" I need to capture

aaa
bbb
ccc

Thanks everyone for your time and perl help.

Script as is:
###########################################################
open(FILE, "<C:\\FolderA\\test.txt")or die("Can't find file name at $F
+ILE");

#Get user input
print"Please type the term you're looking for\n";
$input=<STDIN>;
chomp $input;

#Read in lines of text file
while ($lines=<FILE>)
{
  chomp ($lines);
  $cnt++;

 #Find any lines within the text file that contain user input ($input)
+ and print them.
 if($lines=~/$input/i)
 {
 print"$lines\n";
 }

}

close(FILE);

###########################################################

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