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I'd try an existing tool like grep, which is probably faster than Perl. 
$ grep -l YourString directory/*

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Re^2: efficient way of searching though large number of text file in a given directory
by QM (Parson) on Dec 02, 2010 at 17:03 UTC
    Agreed. Note that egrep is faster than grep.

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