One of my Windows using compatriots was lamenting the lack of a grep-like program for his Win32 workstation. He wanted to be able to check is .c files for strings.

I coded this up, and it works, but it has one drawback: he can't specify the extension of the file to search.

Any ideas? I'm not a Win32 programmer, but I looked through the Learning Perl on Win32 book and didn't find anything.

Here is my current code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use File::Find;
my ($string, @files);
($string, @files) = @ARGV;
@files = "." unless @files;
find sub {
       unless (-x) { 
          if (open (FILE, "$_")) {
             while (my $line = <FILE>) {
                print "$_: $line" if $line =~ /$string/i;
          }
          close FILE;
        } else {
          warn "Can't open $_: $!";
          next;
        }
       }
}, @files;
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