Hi All,

Please bare with me, I have not touched perl in about 6 years but have a job that I think perl is perfect for. I have a website that I'm trying to build a glossary of terms for. The idea is to have a glossary page with definitions and then below that show WHERE that term shows up throughout the site. I essentially need something to search across all webpages and find the instances of the word I'm looking for. I'd like something like this:

$>perl wordsearch.pl <searchword>
Search Results:
<searchword> found in hello.html
<searchword> found in index.html
<searchword> found in about.hmtl

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Does that make sense? I'm not certain what the perl instance is on the server I'm working on, so a brute force method might be best (I'm not certain I can add modules etc). Thank you all for your help!

In reply to search across website for particular terms by Anonymous Monk

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