Im doing content migration (pushing the content of one set of web pages in .html format to another set of pages in .asp format) and while doing that I need to change certain links from the old site from having a .html extension to having a .asp extension. Some links are links to external sites that I do not want to have changed from .html to .asp. The only thing these links have in common is that the have http:// in the beginning and .html at the end. So I need to search for those two keys, and when I find them, I just need to leave the line alone. Here is the code I am using now. 
          

    open (FILE, $filename);
    while(<FILE>){
        

        # walk each file
        my $line = $_ ;
        chomp $line;

        
        #grabbing and printing everything between the body tags
        if (/<body.*?>/i ... /<\/body.*?>/i){
         # this is a body line
          # extract the body
         
        
##########################3
######  this is where i need to put an if else statement that does not
+hing if http:// and .html are found in the same line
        ##Changing .html to .asp at the end of every link that do not 
+belong to an external link
         s/(href=.+?\.)html/$1asp/gi;

         $body_temp = $_;
         $body_temp =~ s/(.*?)\<body\>(.*?)\<\/body\>/$2/i;
         chomp($body_temp);

         $body = "$body_temp" ;
        
         # Write the body to the output file
         print OUTFILE $body . "\n";
        }
    }
    close(FILE);

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