someone i know maintains a FAQ on multiple pages... does anyone know of a PERLscript that will allow hime to "concatenate" all of them into one (working) page?

(rather than just take what's given to me, i'll also write one off the top of my head please critique or write a better one) 

 

# script requires an indexfile, with each
# html filename to be concatenated in it
# one html filename per line

open(EACH_HTML_FILENAME,pagelist.txt) || die;
open(UNIFIED_FILE,>>output.html) || die;

# i could've used 'getopt' or @ARGV but this
# is being written with brevity in mind ...
# another thing i'd like to try to learn is
# automatically geting a directorylist, parsing out
# each filename with the extensions @ARGV and 
# concatenating them

$first_pass = 1;
while (<EACH_HTML_FILENAME>) {
    $thisfile = chomp($_);
    open(THIS_FILE,$thisfile) || die;
    if ($first_pass) {
         while (<THIS_FILE>) {
               if ($_ ne '</body>') {
                      print{UNIFIED_FILE} "$_" ;
               } else {
                  $first_pass = 0; 
                  # exit this iteration of the while loop
               }
         }
    } else {
         $body_start = 0;
         while (<THIS_FILE>) {
                if (!($body_start) {
                      if ($_ eq '<body>) {
                          $body_start = 1;
                      }
                } else {         
                      if ($_ ne '</body>') {
                           print{UNIFIED_FILE} "$_" ;
                      } else {
                           # exit this iteration of the while loop
                      } # END -> if ($_ ne '</body>')
                } # END -> if (!($body_start) 
         } # END -> while (<THIS_FILE>) 

} # END -> while (<EACH_HTML_FILENAME>)
print{UNIFIED_FILE} "</body>" ;

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anyways ... that's it, off the top of my head i think some criticism would help my coding skills and this utility (if it works) would help this guy i know (actually, it would also help me cause i want to be able to download a copy of his FAQ on one page ;)

In reply to html parse - concatenation by Buckaroo Buddha

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