You have answered back to a number of replies now, saying you've tried their ideas and it didn't work. Maybe it would be worth while replying to your own root node with the code as it stands now, so folks can see whether you've followed their ideas as intended.

Have you changed your outer loop and open statement yet? Let me suggest that it should now look like this: 

for my $file ( @files_to_look_in ) {
   open( HTML_FILE, "<$file" ) or die "Can't open $file for input: $!"
+;
   ...

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If you don't have the "or die ...", then the failure might be a matter of not opening the file -- Perl won't generate an error on an open statement that fails, unless you explicitly test to see if it succeeds, and tell it what to say and do when it fails.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Grabbing part of an HTML page by graff
in thread Grabbing part of an HTML page by kingdean

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