One of the following two options should work for all cases you listed. I had to use two because I don't know what your desired result is for the 'href' line.

OPTION 1
If you want your example
"href="tbgl_SetMaterialDiffuse.htm">
to look like
"href="SetMaterialDiffuse.htm_gl">
you should use the following: 

$tmp =~s/TBGL_([a-z]+(\.[a-z]+)?)/$1_gl/i;

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OPTION 2
If you want that example to look like
"href="SetMaterialDiffuse_gl.htm">
use this: 
$tmp =~s/TBGL_([a-z]+)/$1_gl/i;

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I hope this helps :)

Here is a quick script to test the cases

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my @lines = (
'title>TBGL_SetMaterialDiffuse</title',
'Heading1">TBGL_SetMaterialDiffuse</span',
'href="tbgl_SetMaterialDiffuse.htm">',
'">tbgl_SetMaterialDiffuse</',
'f_Code_Keyword">TBGL_DeleteMaterial</span'
);

foreach my $tmp (@lines) {
        print "$tmp\n";
        #$tmp =~s/TBGL_([a-z]+(\.[a-z]+)?)/$1_gl/i; #case 1
        $tmp =~s/TBGL_([a-z]+)/$1_gl/i; #case 2
        print "$tmp\n\n";
}

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In reply to Re^2: regex replace problem by wallisds
in thread regex replace problem by Anonymous Monk

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