On Apr 3, Hans Holtan said:

>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.

Actually, the /g switch there might make it break; I'd remove it.

>               ($all_lines[$_] =~ m/running/gi) and
>               ($all_lines[($_+1)] =~ m/running/gi) and
>               ($all_lines[($_+2)] =~ m/running/gi)

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