1. My aim (for today) is to read-in the HTML file on a filehandle, check for the presence of the word and letter spacing attributes and print out a 'success, patterns are in the document' message. 
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2. Next is to remove the attributes with 'substitute', write the coorections to the HTML source file, and open the browser to see if the its worked.
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3. I'm going to remove the  attributes from the styles (in-line styles at the moment), check the source file for the absence of them, and re-include them within the tags.

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Thanks for your patience, brethren...