instead of using <> to run through the files, you could do something like:

That's excellent. I'll give that a shot. But can you tell me why the camel book says to do it this way if it doesn't really work?

For the regex part, you're right that that would work for standard HTML, but I have to parse JSP pages too, and they are allowed to nest tags like that. I'll try your while loop and see how that works, though.

As for the sadness of monks, I apologize. The reason I did it this way was to familiarize myself with syntax, standard perl functions, and little gotchas that are inherent in any language. Once I feel proficient with this skill, I'll be happy to keep you guys smiling :)

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