One liners make me nervous, so here is a way to get at all the html files in a directory, works on windows with ActiveState, maybe works on unix as well... hope this helps!
#use strict; #use warnings; my ($dirname, $file, %words); opendir(DIR, ".") or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!"; while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) { if ($file =~ /\.html?/) { open my $F, $file or die "Could not open $file\n"; while (<$F>) { #do stuff s/ (?<= # Look back-group weak # Match the word weak <INPUT TYPE=radio NAME= # tag ( # Capuring group: $1 / \1 \w{2}\d\w{2} # ) # End-capture VALUE=\d> # tag (?: # Non capturing group <INPUT TYPE=radio NAME= # tag \1 # It's possible that this should be $ +1, as I said, the code is untested. VALUE=\d> ){6} # There are 7 input tags, one already + matches, so 6 to go. ) # End look-back (?= # Look-ahead-group strong ) # End look-ahead / the text you want to insert /ixg; } close $F; } } closedir(DIR);
UPDATE: Integrated holli's fix and animator's regex code from below. (untested!)

In reply to Re: A text replacement question by tphyahoo
in thread A text replacement question by steamerboy

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