Apologies all for my poor posting the other day! I was advised by one of the faithful to take another look at the problem. I have done just that but am still having trouble matching paragraphs of text and printing them out within html paragraph elements! Could I change the default pattern match from single to multiple line and place each paragraph into a variable and then print something like, 
print "<html para element> $variable </html para element>";

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If so is changing the pattern match done like this?

open INPUT, "<input.txt";

undef $/;

$content = <INPUT>#The variable, input in this case being #standard in
+put
close INPUT;

$/ = "\n";#Restore for normal behaviour later on

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Or have got it completely wrong? I think that this will read in the whole file and not just paragraphs of text. Alternatively as the paragraphs in the text are surrounded by blank lines, could place each paragraph in a variable by searching for a chunk of text sandwiched between 1 or more blank lines.

Updated Steve_p - added code tags.

In reply to matching paragraphs by imhotep

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