I've been working on some code that will search several html pages in my site and strip out specific lines of html, reformat it the way I want and print to a single page. right now it sort of works, I can get my lines but it prints the entire line, I am not sure how to write the code to get exactly want I want. example: current perl code below will find all lines on html pages that have <img src but if a >br< exists on the same line the code prints the entire line like this below.
<img src="http://www.mysite/graphics/blue.jpg" alt="Hey" width="100" height="100" ><br>yada yada
I really just want it to print something like this: <g:image_link>http://www.mysite/graphics/blue.jpg</g:image_link> on one line.
I am also grabbing hidden forms as well and trying to print the just the values from them as well. How do strip out  <br> <hr> <b> etc, etc, etc.
I am stuck now and not really sure what to do now thank you for assistance. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
# Set variables
######################################################################
+#######
$output_file = "../../cgi/generator/source-output.html"; #Chmod 766
######################################################################
+#######
#Pages to Scan
######################################################################
+#######
my @files= qw| ../../page1.html ../../page2.html |;
my @allfiles;
for my $filename(@files){
    open FILE, $filename ||
        die "Cannot open $filename for reading: $!\n";    
    push @allfiles, $_ while (<FILE>);
    @lines = @allfiles;    
$line = @allfiles;  
close FILE;    
}
#output generator
######################################################################
+#######
open (OUTPUT,">$output_file") || die "Can't Open $output_file: $!\n";
printf OUTPUT "Generator CGI Tester\n\n";
s/\<[^\<]+\>//;
foreach $line (@lines) {
   $print_flag = 0;
    s/\<[^\<]+\>//;      
#generator variables 
######################################################################
+#######
       ###Image
   if ($line =~ m/<img src/) {
      $img = $line;
      printf OUTPUT "$img";
     $print_flag = 1;
  } 
        
          ###Form action
   if ($line =~ m/<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"description\"/) {
      $hidden = $line;
      printf OUTPUT "$hidden";
      $print_flag = 1;
   }

}
close (OUTPUT);
# Redirect browser to generated page
print "Location: $output_file\n\n";
exit;

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In reply to getting and printing form values etc from html stripping out all else by kalkisong

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