Your indentation doesn't help see the flow of the code. Reformatted in a more conventional fashion:
sub find_string {
my ($file, $string) = @_;
open my $fh, '<', $file;
while (<$fh>) {
return 1 if /\Q$string/;
}
die "False :Test result is FAIL";
find_string('search.txt', 'name: abc ');
}
it is clear that the die prevents the recursive call to find_string.
However, if the file is not huge (say, bigger than a few hundred megabytes), just suck the whole thing into a string and run the regex against it directly:
sub find_string {
my ($file, $string) = @_;
open my $fh, '<', $file or die "Can't open '$file': $!\n";
my $text = do {local $/; <$fh>};
return $text =~ /\Q$string/;
}
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