I have written a small piece of code to cleanup the html code I have in a directory. I was wondering how this code could be improved. 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use HTML::Clean;
my @file_list = `ls *.html`;
foreach(@file_list) {
chomp();
clean_file($_);
}

sub clean_file {
    my ($filename) = shift;
    print "$filename is being cleaned!\n";
    my $h = new HTML::Clean($filename,9);
    $h->compat();
    $h->strip();
    my $myref = $h->data();
    open(OUTPUT,">$filename");
    print OUTPUT $$myref;
    close(OUTPUT);
}

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I would like to improve my coding abilities and seek the wisdom of others to guide me. Thanks.

In reply to Improvement suggestions? by sheridan3003

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