Re: how can i search a text file for a string and print every occurence of that string

Not sure what you mean by 'printing every occurrence of the string' - I'm guessing you mean print the string in context. The snippet below ought to work - replace 'string to search for' and 'searchfile.txt' with the obvious. It will show the first 25 characters on either side of the search string.

my $string = quotemeta 'string to search for';
my $slurp;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    open my $textfile, '<', 'searchfile.txt' or die $!;
    $slurp = <$textfile>;
    close $textfile;
}

while( $slurp =~ m/ ( .{0,25} $string.{0,25} )gisx / ) {
    print "Found $1\n";
}
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