I know I am gonna get slaughtered for this but...you don't actually need to code a Perl solution, nor install any extra software to do this... 

C:\test>help findstr
Searches for strings in files.

FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/F:fil
+e]
        [/C:string] [/G:file] [strings] [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

  /B        Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.
  /E        Matches pattern if at the end of a line.
  /L        Uses search strings literally.
  /R        Uses search strings as regular expressions.
  /S        Searches for matching files in the current directory and a
+ll
            subdirectories.
  /I        Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive.
  /X        Prints lines that match exactly.
  /V        Prints only lines that do not contain a match.
  /N        Prints the line number before each line that matches.
  /M        Prints only the filename if a file contains a match.
  /O        Prints character offset before each matching line.
  /P        Skip files with non-printable characters
  /F:file   Reads file list from the specified file(/ stands for conso
+le).
  /C:string Uses specified string as a literal search string.
  /G:file   Gets search strings from the specified file(/ stands for c
+onsole).
  strings   Text to be searched for.
  [drive:][path]filename
            Specifies a file or files to search.

Use spaces to separate multiple search strings unless the argument is 
+prefixed
with /C.  For example, 'FINDSTR "hello there" x.y' searches for "hello
+" or
"there" in file x.y.  'FINDSTR /C:"hello there" x.y' searches for
"hello there" in file x.y.

For information on FINDSTR regular expressions refer to the online Com
+mand
Reference.

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Of course, if you want to do much more than just finding the references, you will probably want to use Perl anyway.

In reply to Re: Matching text in Perl by BrowserUk
in thread Matching text in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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