Thanks to both of you for the info. Yes I am building huge arrays in my finding and changing data recursively. Please advise if this way is using alot of memory? 

sub mySub
{
     if( $_ =~ /\.html)
        {
          my $name = $File::Find::name;
        open ( F, $name ) || warn "Can\'t open File $name: $!\n";
            
        while($line = <F>) 
        {
            for $hit ($line =~ /matchdata/gi) 
            {
           
                push @files, $name;

                }
         }
         close F;
    } 
}    
        

find( \&mySub, $dir  );



foreach  (@files)
{
    open(LDATA, "$_") || warn "File does not open: $!\n";
    @data = (<LDATA>);
    close(LDATA);
    open(LDATA, ">$_") || warn "File Write problem $_: $!\n";
    
    foreach (@data)
    {
        s/OLD/NEW/gi;
        print LDATA $_;
    }
    close(LDATA);
}

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