Currently I have a script that opens up a web page on my local NT workstation and substitutes relative path with an absolute path on one link. If I want to substitute a relative path on other links I have to write a substitute for each one. Anyway I could make this script substitute all relative paths and put in the absolute path for each one? I basically need to add <A HREF="http://www.mysite.com/ to each relative path. Here is one example:
relative link before my script:   directory/file.doc
after script:   http://www.mysite.com/directory/file.doc

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Now here is how I did it but want to know if I could do the same with all my relative links on this one webpage. I assume I need some reg expressions that is more complicated than what I have done? 
my $db = 'webpage'l';
open(DATA, "$db") or die "File does not open: $!";
my @data = (<DATA>);
close (DATA);
open(DATA, ">$db") or die "File not open: $!";


foreach my $line (@data)
{
  $line =~ s?<A HREF="directory/file.doc">?<A HREF="http://www.mysite.
+com/directory/file.doc">?g;
  print DATA $line;
}

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