Yes, don't print $body if you print $newline.

I'd rewrite your logic slightly, so you modify the line in place, using $_ instead of several unnecessary temporary variables. I could write the code for you, but you have to understand the logic first.

Update: Here's a crack at better code: 

open (FILE, $filename) or die "Can't open $filename: $!";

while(<FILE>){
         
    s/(a href=.+?\.)html/$1asp/g;

    s/(.*?)\<body\>(.*?)\<\/body\>/$2/i;
          
    print OUTFILE $_;
}

close(FILE);

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There's no need to chomp or to carry extra things around. I'm not thrilled with the second regex, but I figure it's there for a reason. :)

In reply to Re: Removing duplicate line by chromatic
in thread Removing duplicate line by Anonymous Monk

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