You may want to put the list of keywords in an array to create a regex and then iterate through the lines of each file and test for the keywords. This is a little sloppy but I hope you get the idea: 
my @KEYWORDS = qw(hello there you gurus); 

# create the regex
my $string = '';
foreach (@KEYWORDS){
    $string .= "$_||";
}
$string =~ s/\|\|$//;

# open the log file
open(LOGFILE,$logfilename)||die"Cannot open $logfilename\n$!\n"

# let's go through the files....
foreach (@files) {
    $filename = $_;
    open(FILE,$filename)||die"Cannot open $filename\n$!\n";
    #check if a keyword is in the line
    while(<FILE>){
        if (/$string/i){
            print LOGFILE "Keyword found in $filename\n";
        }
    }
}

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Mick

In reply to Re: Search Algorithm by mrmick
in thread Search Algorithm by tenfourty

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