I am trying to find a way to mass rename all of the PAGE titles in my html documents. As of now, I have found the following code that lists all the html files and their titles, but I have been having trouble opening the html files for append. Once I do that, I am still unsure of how to change the TITLE tag.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

foreach $file (<*.htm*>) {
  open(HTFILE, ">>$file") or die ("can't open $file");
  while (<HTFILE>) {
    chop;
    $notitle = 1;
    if (/^\<TITLE\>/) {
      s/<TITLE>//;
      s/<\/TITLE>//;
      print;
      $notitle = 0;
      last;    # break out of this loop (file)
    }
    if (/^\<title\>/) {
      s/<title>//;
      s/<\/title>//;
      print;
      $notitle = 0;
      last;    # break out of this loop (file)
    }
  }
  if ($notitle == 1) { print "*** No title found ***  " };
  close(HTFILE);
  print "  ($file)\n";
}
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Any ideas?

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