PERL Beginners - Perl regular expression help

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Perl regular expression help

vasanthd

2004-07-23, 4:41 pm

Hello there,
I am a newbie towards perl I have one doubt in regular expressions. I am doing a search engine, and I need help on following criteria. I find a match, and I want to grab about 3 words before the match and about 3 words after the match, to include that in the description of the search results.
E.g. String = "The cat ran over the mouse to catch the ball and fell".
pattern = mouse

i need to grab - "ran over the mouse to catch the"

I tried the \b - word boundary, but i didnt know exactly how to fit that. Anyhelp is appreciated.

Thanks
Vas

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