I've read several nodes concerning a similar problem, but I haven't had enough experience with Perl to know how to modify the nodes to work for me. I thought I had it, but I'm not quite there. So, here's my question.

I'm trying to open an html file, find a string, and replace the string.

Here's what I've got. 
open(FH, "file.html");
while(<FH>)
{
    chomp;
    my $string = "$_";
    my $find = "here.company.com/pagedir";
    my $replace = "there.company.com/";
    $find = quotemeta $find;
    $string =~ s/$find/$replace/g;
    print $string;
}
close(FH);

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This works well to dump the output to the screen, but it doesn't replace the string in the file.

Thanks for your help.

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