Hello again brethren, Having dealt with the file-writing problem with your help, Im confronted with confusing error messages concerning my regexps to remove letter-spacing and word-spacing attributes from my in-document style sheet. The code's clunky but it's just a little test of my budding regexps. What am I missing?! Could someone explain why this is occuring? Here are the error messages and the code: 
use of unintialised value in pattern match (m//)...
An undefined value was used as if it were already defined

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#!/usr/bin/perl
# read letter and word spacing attributes.plx
# Program will read in an html file, scan for word and letter spacing 
+attributes
# and print out entire doc.
# 1. No need for file variable yet: open (INFILE, "<".$htmlFile) or di
+e("Can't read source file!\n");

use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use strict;

# Declare and initialise variables.
my $pattern1 =~ /(word)-(spacing):\s*[\d]+px/; # word spacing regexp
my $pattern2 =~ /(letter)-(spacing):\s*[\d]+px/;   # letter spacing re
+gexp
my @htmlLines;

# Open HTML test file and read into array.
open INFILE, "E:\\Documents and Settings\\Richard Lamb\\My Documents\\
+HTML\\test2InDocCSS.html" or die "Sod! Can't open this file.\n";
@htmlLines = <INFILE>;
close (INFILE);

while(@htmlLines)
{
  # check for word spacing attributes in array
  sub wordSpacing
  {
    foreach my $line (@htmlLines)
    {
      if(/$pattern1 && $pattern2/)
      {
        printHTML();
      }
      else
      {
        notFound();
      }
    }
  }
}

# prints the reformatted HTML doc
sub printHTML
{
  for my $i (0..@htmlLines-1)
  {
    print $htmlLines[$i];
    print "Success!\n";
  }
}

# Prints error message
sub notFound
{
  print "Letter and word spacing attributes note found in HTML file.\n
+";
}

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Many thanks for your wisdom and time! Tricky

In reply to Regexp conundrum by Tricky

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