in reply to Re^2: Substituting for each regular exp in a local file
in thread Substituting for each regular exp in a local file

If it helps a sample of the html code from file1.html : 

<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; background: white">
  <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Tahoma">
  <a href="http://...online.feeds.com/link1/" target="_blank" style="c
+olor:
blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single">
  <span style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none">Links
  Part 2</span></a> </span></li>
  <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; background: white">
  <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Tahoma">
  <a href="http://...online.feeds.com/link2/" target="_blank" style="c
+olor:
blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single">
  <span style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none">Links
  Part 3</span></a> </span></li>
  <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; background: white">
  <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Tahoma">
  <a href="http://...online.feeds.com/link3/" target="_blank" style="c
+olor:
blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single">
  <span style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none">Links
  Part 4</span></a> </span></li>
  <li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-autospace:
ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; background: white">
  <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Tahoma">
  <a href="http://...online.feeds.com/link4/" target="_blank" style="c
+olor:
blue; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single">
  <span style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none">Links
  Part 5</span></a> </span></li>

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The contents of the link http://...online.feeds.com/link1/ for example is: 
  <body>
  ...
      </td></tr><tr><td
style="height:81%;width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;"><embed
src="http://...arax.../v/gomlckZfGYU..." </embed>  </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
  <td style="height:13%;width:100%;padding:0;text-align:left;">

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