#!/usr/bin/perl #regexp.pl use File::Spec; use strict; use warnings; print "Gimme the address of the directory:\n"; chomp(my $folder = <>); print "What's the phrase you're looking for?\n"; chomp(my $find = <>); my @found; opendir my $dh, $folder or die "Can't open $folder: $!"; while (my $file = readdir($dh)) { next if $file =~ /^\.+$/; my $path = File::Spec->catfile($folder, $file); next if ! -f $path; open my $fh, $path or die "Can't open $path: $!"; my $data = do {local $/; <$fh>}; close $fh; if ($data =~ /\Q$find\E/i){ push @found, $file; } } close $dh; print "Your query was found in the following files:\n"; print "@found\n";