Why do they have to be referenced? They aren't changing are they? Now it looks like this: 
sub findtext {
@filenumbers = @_;
foreach $number(@filenumbers) {
push @filenumbers2, split(/\W/, $number);
}
    foreach $number(@filenumbers2) {
    chomp $number;
    if( defined $number ) {
        open(FILE,"/home/jroberts/$number.txt") or die "$!";
        while(<FILE>) {
        for $term(@inputs) {
            next unless (/\b($term)\b/i);
            push @before, split(' ', $`);
            @before = reverse(@before);
            @before = splice(@before, 0, 7);
            @before = reverse(@before);
            push @after, split(' ', $');
            @after = splice(@after, 0, 7); 
            if(exists $results{$number}) {
            $existing = $results{$number}; 
            $results{$number} = $existing . "... @before" . "<b>$1</b>
+" . "@after ...";
            } else {
            $results{$number} = "$url... @before" . "<b>$1</b>" . "@af
+ter ";
            }
            @before = undef;
            @after = undef;
            next;
                    
        }
        }
        close(FILE);
        print "Match found in $number.txt\n";
        @fulltext = $results{$number};
        print "@fulltext\n";
    } else {
    next;
    }
    next;
    }
}

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This still returns only one match per $term. I still don't understand how to "rewind" the file. @before and @after just put text around the matches, kinda like a search engine format.
jroberts

In reply to Re: Pattern Matching With Regular Expressions by Anonymous Monk
in thread Pattern Matching With Regular Expressions by Anonymous Monk

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