I'm not sure what you are asking. If you want to know how to open a file then read the documentation for open. You would probably do that in a for loop for a fixed number of files. File::Find is more flexible, but might be more than you need.

To check the contents of the file use a regular expression match if necessary. If you are looking for a specific string, like 'EXIT', then just a simple equality if test (use eq not ==) will do the job.

You refer to Grep, which leaves me puzzled. Do you mean the Perl built-in grep or perhaps the UNIX utility program grep(1)? Using an external program like grep(1) from Perl is a waste, grep(1) does not do anything that perl can't do (except it uses a more primitive version of regular expressions).

Unless you download it from somewhere like GNU, then you won't have grep(1) on Microsoft Windows anyway. On Windows I always use a simple Perl version of egrep I have written. Hang on though....

In reply to Re^2: Access to directory -> Files -> contents & get the data by cdarke
in thread Access to directory -> Files -> contents & get the data by Sachin_dada

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