On Jul 15, Vishal Kapoor said:
>I want to read a few files and search for a particular word. I want to then
>print a list of all the files with that word.
my @hits;
my $word = "japhy";
{
local @ARGV = @files_to_search;
while (<>) {
if (index($_, $word) != -1) {
push @hits, $ARGV;
close ARGV;
}
}
}
Instead of using index(), you can use a regex:
if (/\b$word\b/) { ... }
or perhaps
if (/\b\Q$word\E\b/) { ... }
if there's a chance there are regex metacharacters in $word.
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