Hi!

What is your issue with the script?

In the first case, you'll need some code like 

use FileHandle;
my  $htmlfile = new FileHandle("XXX.html", "r") ;
while  ($line = <$htmlfile>)  { # process each line

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In the second case, you need to identify what to replace and by which new text. According to your example, this could be
<a class=   ---->   <div class="main-button-wrapper"><a class=   or 
<\a>        ---->   <\a><\div>

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Then you'll need to create the perl-regExes for replacing ... using =~ s/// and escaping all special characters. One line could be 
$line =~ s/<\/a>/<\/a><\/div>/;

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HTH, Rata

PS.: be aware that defining suitable patterns for your anchor-tags is crucial, as the solution above is just a text-replace, but is not working on the HTML-structure. If your HTML-pages contain your anchors at "unexpected" places, you'll probably be much happier by using a CPAN-module for HTML-parsing

In reply to Re: Search and replace HTML by Ratazong
in thread Search and replace HTML by PerlRob

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