Here is my question , I am trying to search for a string within a file and replace it with another string. Below is the script that I have been working on .. Please do provide me the help .. and also one more thing I have the hash array setup .. it's the last part that's killing me is where i am trying to search and do the replace

below is my script 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# This script will process the old and new attributes
# and then get a html file , grab aall the old attribute then
# replace it with the new attributes

$html_file = "/export/home/achhabra/example.html";
$Attribute = "/export/home/achhabra/Attributes.txt";

open (F, "$Attribute") or die ("can't open $Attribute : $!\n");

while(<F>)
 {
  chomp $_;
  @attributes = split(/ /, $_);
  $attributes_hash{$attributes[0]} = $attributes[1];
 }
close(F);


open (H, "$html_file") or die ("can't open $html_file : $!\n");

foreach $attribute (%attributes_hash)
 {
  while(<H>)
   {
    system(":%s/\$attribute/\$attributes_hash{attribute}/g");
   }
 }
close(H);

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