Maybe your open is failing because you're not looking in $dir? Try this: 

open(OLD,"<$dir/$file") or die "can't open $dir/$file: $!";

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As for your substitutions, here's one way to do it (note: untested code):

my $data = do {local $/; <OLD>}; # slurp the whole file in to $data
my @replace_list = ('','Notes:','Director:','Actors:');
while ($data =~ s/(?<=$search)/shift @replace_list/egs) {};

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BTW, I can understand doing it the quick-and-dirty way with s///, but if this is more than just a one-off thing, you might consider doing it with XML::Parser.

-b

In reply to Re: Inserting Text into Files within a Directory by bgreenlee
in thread Inserting Text into Files within a Directory by LF

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