Try to be more specific and detailed about what you need. "move forward or backward to grab another word nearby analysing character by character" could mean a lot of things, and the implementation will change depending on what it is that actually means.

However, lets assume that you've got the entire webpage in $page: 

if ( ( my $position = index $page, "word" ) >= 0 ) {
    print "Found at $position.\n";
}

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Once you've told us what you mean by that second part to the question we can help you to figure out how to "go forward or backward". ...it may be that the whole thing belongs in a regexp anyway.


Dave

In reply to Re: Find a specific word in a text file by davido
in thread Find a specific word in a text file by algonquin

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