Is there a function to Search a Text File?

I am writing a program that will read data from a URL and then save that URL to a text file. I then need to be able to search the text file for certain strings and must know which line they appear on. I realize that I could read the text file in line by line looking for the string and then note the current line number. However, I need to search for 20-30 different strings in each URL and this would be very inefficient. I would really like some way to say:
int lineNumber = 0;
lineNumber = searchText("sometextfile.txt", str);
And have searchText return the lineNumber on which the String str was found. Alternately, if there is way to search a URL that would cut out the middle man of writing it to a text file first.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I could not find this anywhere. Thanks.

I have done something similar to to this, but it depends on what you want to use it for. I was looking for specific data on websites and would copy that data into a database. So, I used regex to find the data on the site and copy it. I also had to use String Tokenizer in certain places to get the correct data sometimes.
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