I have a big legacy app with a bunch of CGI.pm tags like: li(font({-face=>'verdana, arial, sans-serif', -color=>'red'}, $errorstring))

However, I have been tasked with redesigning the site, and need to be able to do most of the styling with CSS. I'm kind of stumped on a clean way to clean them up. My first stab was to try a simple regex: 

find . |xargs grep -l 'font' | xargs 
perl -ne 'if(s/font\s*\(([^()]+)\)  )/<span class="$1"/g) {print;}'

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However, that seems to be heading somewhere int he right direction, but not really what I want. A better approach may be to split up the tags and just dump portions in a class (perhaps something like <li><span class="verdana red">$errorstring</span></li>

Is there a simple way to do that in regex? Or is there a better approach to cleaning up the cgi.pm code?

In reply to Stripping CGI.pm tags by ldude7

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