Hi monks, ive some prroblem with my pattern mathcing problem, I am trying to print the string that containts specific characters with the position of that string in a file, but the only thng that i can get is, the location of that string in a file.

Here is my code :

use CGI;

my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header('text/html');

    my $dir = 'C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\vortragsreihe_DEV\\';    
    my $book = $dir.'dir.txt';

    opendir(DIR, $dir) or die $!;
    open FILE, '>'.$book;

        while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
            if(-f $dir.$file){
            # Use a regular expression to ignore files beginning with 
+a period
            next if ($file =~ m/^\./);

            print FILE "C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\vortragsreihe_DEV\\$file
+\n";
            }
        }
close FILE;
closedir(DIR);

open (DATEI, '<' . 'C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\vortragsreihe_DEV\\dir.txt')
+ || die "Datei nicht gefunden $!";

    my @daten = <DATEI>; 
    close (DATEI); 
    chomp(@daten);    

        my $number = 0;
        my %params = $cgi->Vars;
        my $string = quotemeta("$test");
            
            foreach(@daten){
                print "finding -$string- in $daten[$number]\n"."</br>"
+;

                open(my $file,  "<",  "$daten[$number]")  or die "Can'
+t open the file: $!";
                my $num = 1;
                    while (<$file>) {
    
                         if (/$string/)
                         {     
                            my $content =~ m/(\/$string\/[a-z]*)/g;
                            print $content;
                            print "found string -$string- in line $num
+ \n";
                            print "<br>";
                         }
                                
                $num++;
                     }
            $number++;
            }
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and the result is (if we search 'a') : found string -a- in line 2, however i expect the it prints the whole string so when i search the word that starts with 'a', it will return the word like 'air'. any help will be appriciated

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