Okay, I need to parse through every file I have on my server that has the extention of .shtml and find all instances of <a href="main.php?page=...."> and change the main.php?page= to /?id= ONLY of the main.php?page is in an anchor href.

I have it down to a point of near complete, but apperantly, substitute, transition, and all those only want to switch once.
sub changelinks {
 my ($file) = @_;
 if (-d $file) {
  opendir(DIR, $file) || die "$!";
  my @filenames = readdir(DIR);
  foreach my $filename (@filenames) {
   if (($filename ne "." && $filename ne "..")) {
    changelinks($file."/".$filename);
   }
  }
  closedir(DIR);
 } else {
  if ($file =~ /.shtml/i) {

   And then whatever method of opening and editing each file goes here

  }
 }
}

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Any ideas on how to do this?
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