Hello Monks,
My script aims to read-in a dummy HTML file from my hard disk (E drive, as the disk is partitioned), call a sub which will run a regex looking for image tags and replacing them with nothing. The interpreter is telling me that I have a global variable which needs an explicit package name, and I've tried to remedy this but still won't work! I'm new the programming, so please bear with me. Here's the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#htmltest2.plx
# Program will read in an html file, remove the img tag and print out
# no need for file variable yet: open (INFILE, "<".$htmlFile) or die("
+Can't read source file!\n");
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

my @htmlLines;
open INFILE, "E:\\Documents and Settings\\Richard Lamb\\My Documents\\
+HTMLworkspace\\HTML practice\\My First Page!\\firsttest\.html" or die
+ ("Sod! Can't open this file.\n");
@htmlLines = <INFILE>;

scrapTag(); # calls method to remove image tags

sub scrapTag  # removes image tags from HTML document
{
  while($htmlLines[$i] =~ m/<IMG\s+([^>]+)>/ig) # finds each instance 
+of image tag in the input file
  {

    s/<IMG\s+([^>]+)>/ig//ig # replaces each instance of image tag wit
+h nothing!
  }
  return @htmlLines;
}

for my $i (0..@htmlLines-1)
{
  print $htmlLines[$i];
}

print "\n\n";
sleep 2;
print "Success?!\n"

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Any suggestions/hints as to where I'm going wrong?

Cheers,

Richard

update (broquaint): added formatting

In reply to HTML image tag stripping by Anonymous Monk

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