Hi Lance,
I don't know if this is too general for your purposes, but this 
should look through a whole file and find anyplace that the word 
"running" appear in three consecutive lines.


open (INFILE, "+<somefile.txt") or die "could not read file\n";
@all_lines = <INFILE>;

for (0 .. ($#all_lines-2)){
        if (
                ($all_lines[$_] =~ m/running/gi) and
                ($all_lines[($_+1)] =~ m/running/gi) and
                ($all_lines[($_+2)] =~ m/running/gi)
                )
        {
                Do some stuff...
        }
}

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