Update: sed doesn't have alternate delimiters, what was I thinking ...
You need to change your sed delimiters as they conflict with the slashes in $c and $b (or you could escape them) e.g 
## warn if we get an abnormal exit status
system ("sed -e 's[$c][$b]g' $File1 > $Replace_html")
 == 0 or warn "sed had problems (exit val $?)\n";

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 Make sure you check your sed exit status in case of errors (check out system for details).
Also beware of using variables called $a or $b due to their automatic global nature (see. sort for more details).

Try this instead as escaping the slashes should do the trick 

(my $search  = $c) =~ s[/](\\/)g;
(my $replace = $b) =~ s[/](\\/)g;
system("sed -e 's/$search/$replace/g' $File1 > $Replace_html")
  == 0 warn "sed had problems (exit val $?)\n";

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You also might want to check that $File1 exists and is readable as $Replace_html won't be empty if sed exits normally.
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: question on sed by broquaint
in thread question on sed by Anonymous Monk

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