Thanks both of you. I appreciate those links. I now remember I've installed and used HTML::TokeParser in the past as well.

I'm feeling particularly dumb today obviously, but I'm not seeing any "write whole file back out" in those modules, and I'm not sure about the logic.

What I obvously need is something like 

get each tag
if (tag is </h4>){
$just_found_h4_flag = 1;
if tag is p && $just_found_h4_flag == 1
change p to blockquote;
} else {
$just_found_h4_flag = 0.
}

[download]

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re^2: HTML module help please? by Cody Pendant
in thread HTML module help please? by Cody Pendant

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