I have this find script that only seems to work 1 out of 10 times. Most of the time it corrupts the files and messes up the data. It is supposed to change a word in a directory and ALL of its sub directories on an NT. Can someone advise what I am doing wrong here to make this work correctly?? 
use File::Find;

my @dirs = qw( . );

find ( \&change, @dirs );

sub change
{
    if ( -f && /\.html$/ )
    {
    my $file = $_;
    open(IN, $file) or die "CANT OPEN FILE!\n";
    
    while(<IN>)
    {
        $data .= $_; 
    }
    
    close IN;
    
    $buffer =~ s/OLDWORD/NEWWORD/gis;
    
    open(OPF,">$file") or die "NOT OPENING FILE FOR MOD, $!\n";
    print OPF "$data";
    close OPF;
    }
    }

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