This will match each occurence of a string inside
a file:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use IO::File;
use constant FILE => 'search.txt';
use constant FIND => 'string to find';
IO::File->input_record_separator(FIND);
my $fh = IO::File->new(FILE, O_RDONLY)
or die 'Could not open file ', FILE, ": $!";
$fh->getline; #fast forward to the first match
#print each occurence in the file
print IO::File->input_record_separator
while $fh->getline;
$fh->close;
Explanation: The input record seperator,
$/ has been set to your search string.
When perl reads the file line by line, it actually
is scanning the file until it finds the search
string, printing the string each time it finds
it. To my knowledge this is the fastest way to
do brute force exact text matches in a file with
pure perl.
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