or download this
my $s = "YOUR_NEEDLE";
open my $f, "<", "YOUR_FILENAME" or die "open error: $!"; binmode $f o
+r die "binmode error: $!";
...
do { $b1 = $b0; $r = read($f, $b0, 1024); defined($r) or die "read err
+or: $!"; $r == 0 and die "string not found"; } until
0 <= ($g = index($b1 . $b0, $s));
my $pos = tell($f) - length($b0) - length($b1) + $g + length($s);