hii, i have written a code to comment out certail lines in a file based on some condition. i want to apply comment and uncomment thing on this type of data: data ------- 

<%--JS one Link Start
    <script main="js src="js/libs/"></script>
  <%--JS one Link End
    
<%--JS second Link Start--%>
  <script main="js/scripts Main" src="js/libs"></script>
<%--JS second Link End--%>

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--------------------------------------- in this data if "one Link Start" is found without "--%>" and "second Link Start" is found with "--%>" character then trim "--%>" from "second Link Start" and append to "one Link Start" and vice versa. i have tried this code but not working. thanks in advance if anyone help me here.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

open my $fh, '<', 'hii.txt' or die "Can't open the damn file for readi
+ng!: $!";

my @file_content;

while ( my $line = <$fh> ){
    chomp $line;

    if ( $line =~ /\s+.* one Link Start$/){
         next unless($line=~/\s+.*second Link Start\s*--%>$/);
         $line =~ s/\s+--%>//;
        s/\s+.* one Link Start$/\s+.* one Link Start\s*--%>/gi;
        
    }
    elsif ($line =~ /\s+.* second Link Start$/){
         next unless($line=~/\s+.*oneLink Start\s*--%>$/);
         $line =~ s/\s+--%>//;
        s/\s+.* second Link Start$/\s+.* second Link Start\s*--%>/gi;
        
   }
    
}

close $fh;
print $line;

 open(my $output_fh, '>', 'hii.txt')
        or die "Unable to open file  for writing: $!";
    print $output_fh $line;
    close $output_fh;

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In reply to appending comment character in multiple lines based on condition by hector89

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