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Replace first 5 occurance of a pattern

There is scenario that i have to replace a pattern at the first 5 occurance in a file. say i need to replace 'abc' by 'xyz' at its first 5 occurance in a file a.txt,
can anybody help me how it can be done, i can do complete replacement of the pattern using sed throughtout the file.

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Code:

perl -i.bck -pe's/(abc)/$c++<5?xyz:$1/eg' a.txt

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