I crave somebody's benevolence in trying to improve something in this script. The code finds the number of words and which line the individual words is on bt I'm also trying to get the surrounding words. I'm aware that this will cause performance issues but the data will eventually go into a database. 
foreach $line ( @theseLines ) {
    $count++;
    $line = lc $line;
    $line =~ s/[.,:;?!]//g;
    while ( $line =~ /(\p{Alnum}+([-']\p{Alnum}+)*)/g ) {
        $word = $&;
        if ( $word =~ /\s/ || $word eq "") { next }
        $Count{$word}++;
        if ( defined $Line{$word} ) {
            $Line{$word} =~ m/(\d*?)$/;
            if ( $1 == $count ) {
                next;
            } else {
                $Line{$word} .= ", $count";
            }
        } else {
            $Line{$word} = $count;
        }

    }
}
<br />
<br />
@theseWords = keys %Line;
@theseWords = sort @theseWords;
foreach $word ( @theseWords ) {
   my @lines = split m/,/, $Line{$word};
   for (@lines){ 
   print ("$word, $_");
   }
}

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What I'd like to get, if "Mary had a little lamb" was on line 8 and I'm searching in little, is:
little, 8, a little lamb.
Thanks in advance for any help.

In reply to Finding word either side of a word match by Quicksilver

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