Try the following:
use File::Basename;

{

local $/;

opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "Can't open directory $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {

   ($base, $dir, $ext) = fileparse($dirname . "/" . $file,'\..*');

   if ($file ne "." && $file ne "..") { #-T) {

      open(FILE, $dirname."/".$file) or die "Couldn't open $file: $!";

         $plain_text = <FILE>;
         $plain_text =~ s/<[^>]*>//gs;

         if ($plain_text =~ /$search_string/g) {

            push(@matched_files, $base);

         }

      close(FILE);

   }

}
closedir(DIR);

}
# @matched_files contains all files that had $search_string in them

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Set $dirname to the path of the directory you want to search in and $search_string to the string you want to search for. Note: There is a problem with this script in that it will not strip html properly if there are nested tags for example the tag: 
<img src="img.gif" alt=" Look at this >>>> ">

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wouldn't be stripped properly. If this isn't going to be a problem though then the solution above should work fine. Good luck! Rob

In reply to Re: Searching text files with strings by r3b3lxd
in thread Searching text files with strings by JohnMcPherson

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