Thanks StarX for your help. The process takes place on the server itself, so I don't need to pull the content to a client, therefore wget doesn't fit the bill.

I want to use a regex for substitution on the URLs in the files, but I have the following issue:

I want to globally change the following: <a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=contacts"><font color="#269BD5">

into: <a href="pages/contacts.htm"><font color="#269BD5">

You'll notice that the match would be http://www.mysite.org/?page= but I also need to add a ".htm" to the end of the contacts so it becomes contacts.htm This part of the URL is variable, so how can I use a regex replace to match the above and also add a ".htm" to the end of that variable part?

Here are a few dummy URLs for example so you can see the pattern and the variable too.

<a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=newsletter"><font color="#269BD5">

change to: <a href="pages/newsletter.htm"><font color="#269BD5">

<a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=faq">

change to: <a href="pages/faq.htm">

So, again the script needs to replace all the full absolute URL links with nothing and replace the PHP "?page=" with just the variable page name (i.e. contacts) plus the ".htm"

Is there a combination of Perl code and/or regex that can do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Re^2: Need direction on mass find/replacement in HTML files. by kevin4truth
in thread Need direction on mass find/replacement in HTML files. by kevin4truth

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