$text="Oldfield's career began fairly early, playing <1> acoustic guitar in local folk clubs. At this time, he already had two fifteen-minute instrumental pieces in which he would "go through all <2>sorts of moods", precursors to his landmark 1970s' compositions. In his early teens, Oldfield was involved in a 'beat group' <3>playing Shadows-style music (he has often cited Hank Marvin as a major influence, and would later cover The Shadows' song "Wonderful Land")."

$query="in";

	while ( $text =~ /$query/gi ) {

		my $match   = $1;
		my $pos     = pos( $text );
		my $start   = $pos - $self->radius - length( $match );
		my $extract = '';
		
		if ( $start < 0 ) {
		
			$extract = substr( $text, 0, $width + $start + length( $match ));
			$extract = ( " " x -$start ) . $extract;
			
		}
		
		else {
		
			$extract = substr( $text, $start, $width + length( $match ));
			my $deficit = $width + length( $match ) - length( $extract );
			if ( $deficit > 0 ) { $extract .= ( " " x $deficit ) }
		
		}
		
		push @lines, $extract;
	}