Thanks for all the help. It works and captures everything EXCEPT if I have multiple hits on one line it only captures the first one and then thats it for that line. I need it to capture all hits on the line. For example the below should give me 5 hits after I run the script:

%ff other%ff
other words%ff
%jj %bb otherstuff here


But my current script only gives me 3 hits because it counts one hit per line. I need it to count every match on every line. Please advise how I can get this to work now? 
sub rout
  {
    local *FILE;
    if( $_ =~ /\.html?$/)
    {
       open ( FILE, $name );
       while($hit = <FILE>)
       {
             if( $hit =~ /%(?:ff|jj|bb)/ )
          {
             print "Hit = $1\n";
          }
       }
       close FILE;
      }
  }

  find( \&rout, "/disk1/disk2" );

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