hi,

i don't know if this helps but you could play around with regex and do some thing like this :

use strict;

print"Please type the term you're looking for\n";

chomp (my $cho = <STDIN>);

open (FILE, "<", $ARGV[0]) || die "$!";

$/ ="(.*)\n(.*)\n(.*)";
while (<FILE>){

  m/(.*)\n(.*)\n(.*)/gi;
  next if (!m/(.*)\n$cho\n(.*)/ );
  print "$1\n$cho\n$2";
}
$/ = "\n";
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it does exactly this:

fff
aaa       aaa   
bbb  =>   bbb
ccc       ccc   
ddd
[download]

there are many ways to do it ! but it depends if this is what you actually need. here i've just changed the recognition pattern (input record separator) from \n (which is standard) to stuff\nyour_stuff\nstuff and then evaluate the middle pattern to your pattern. read more about $/ here.

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