On May 13, Tim & Kylie Duke said:
>I am trying to build a perl program that reads through a very large text
>file, searches for a pattern, and prints the pattern - within its context -
>into a log file for later study. The context is defined as, say, 20
>characters before and after the found patt
Two thoughts here:
1) The $. Variable has the line number of the file you are iterating
through, so you could use that combined with pos()
2) You could also try something like this:
while(){
if($_ =~ /.{20}$pattern.{20}/){
push(@found,$1);
}
}
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