To parse HTML and manipulate a URI it might be worth considering using modules that can do the heavy lifting for you.

This presses HTML::TreeBuilder and URI into service. 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use URI;

my $t = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file(*DATA)
  or die qq{TB->new failed: $!\n};

my @anchors = $t->look_down(_tag => q{a});
for my $anchor (@anchors){
  my $href        = $anchor->attr(q{href});
  my $uri         = URI->new($href);
  my $host        = $uri->host;
  next unless $host eq q{www.mysite.org};
  
  my %query_form  = $uri->query_form;
  next unless exists $query_form{page};
  
  my $replace     = sprintf(q{pages/%s.htm}, $query_form{page});
  $anchor->attr(q{href}, $replace);
}

print $t->as_HTML(q{}, q{ }, {p => 0});

__DATA__
<html><head><title>mysite</title></head>
<body>
<p><a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=contacts">text</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=newsletter">text</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mysite.org/?page=faq">text</a></p>
</body>
</html>

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<html>
 <head>
  <title>mysite</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p><a href="pages/contacts.htm">text</a></p>
  <p><a href="pages/newsletter.htm">text</a></p>
  <p><a href="pages/faq.htm">text</a></p>
 </body>
</html>

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See also HTML::Element.

In reply to Re^3: Need direction on mass find/replacement in HTML files. by wfsp
in thread Need direction on mass find/replacement in HTML files. by kevin4truth

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