I have a simple script to convert html files to text, but I need to do this to many files across multiple directories. I would like to open the files, parse the text, and then save the files to another name so that star.html becomes star.txt. I've got the parsing part done, but I can't quite figure out a) how to handle multiple files and b) change the file extensions. I've read through this site, programming perl, and the perl cookbook, but I don't see how to apply my package again. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use lib "/export/home/s/ssorocza/myperl"; 

# parse HTML response                     
package MyParser;                         

open LOG, '>>out.txt' ;                   

use HTML::Parser;                         
use HTML::Entities qw(decode_entities);   

@ISA = qw(HTML::Parser);                  

sub text {
my ($self, $text) = @_;               
    print LOG decode_entities($text);     
}                                         
                                          
package main;                             
                                          
while ( <> ) {                            
    MyParser->new->parse_file($ARGV);     
}

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Thank you. Suzi

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