Here is a program I made to search for a phrase in a directory. I'm a bit new to perl, so point out any other corrections that can be made: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#regexp.pl

print "Gimme the address of the directory:\n";
my $folder = <>;
chomp $folder;

opendir(DIR, $folder) or die "We got a problem: $!";
my @files = readdir(DIR);

print "What's the phrase you're looking for?\n";
my $find = <>;
chomp $find;

my @found;

foreach (@files){
open(FILE, $_);
my @FILE = <FILE>;
    if (@FILE =~ /$find/i){
        push (@found, $_);    
    } else {
        next;
    }
} 

print "Your query was found in the following files:\n";

print "@found\n";

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So I tried running this, and it complains: "readline() closed on filehandle FILE at regexp.pl line 21" Line 21, by the way, is the line containing: 
my @FILE = <FILE>;

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In reply to Tricky regexp by riceboyyy

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