Since you are printing the data inside of the while-loop, it's printed before the count-value. You told the programm to do.
A solution is to gather the lines in an array, and print them after the while-loop, (of course unless you are reading more lines than fit into memory): 

use File::Find;
 
 sub fetcher
 {
     my($ct, @data) = (0,());
     if( $_ =~ /\.html?$/) {
       my $name = $File::Find::name;
       open ( F, $name ) or die "$!: $name\n";
        #while( $line = <F> ) 
        # {
        #    for $i ($line =~ /stuffhere)/gi ) {
        #              push(@data, "$i\n"); # gather the lines
    #     $ct++;
        #    }
        #}

    # since there is no requirement the lines need to match
        # why not
        local $/ = undef;
    @data = <F>;
        close F;
     }
     return($ct,\@data);
 }
my ($ct, $data) = find( \&fetcher, "/directory"  );

print @$data; 
print "\n\nTotal Count = $ct\n\n";

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should do it. Note that I modified your loop, but provided a more proper solution below it.

Since you are reading in html-files, I wonder if some CPAN-Module might be of interest to you.

regards,
tomte

Update:Modified the code to slurp the file in.

Update II:fixed the CPAN-link.

Hlade's Law:

If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person --
they will find an easier way to do it.

In reply to Re: Show count before data output by Tomte
in thread Show count before data output by Anonymous Monk

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