open (FILE, $filename); while(){ # walk each file my $line = $_ ; chomp $line; #grabbing and printing everything between the body tags if (//i ... /<\/body.*?>/i){ # this is a body line # extract the body ##Changing .html to .asp at the end of every link that does not belong to an external link if ($_ !~ m/href=\"http:\/\/.+\.html/) { s/(href=.+?\.)html/$1asp/gi } ###this is where i need to find and delete those certain include files $body_temp = $_; $body_temp =~ s/(.*?)\(.*?)\<\/body\>/$2/i; chomp($body_temp); $body = "$body_temp" ; # Write the body to the output file print OUTFILE $body . "\n"; } } close(FILE);