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inlimbo
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Jan 29, 2005, 6:50 PM

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HTML code generator	Can't Post

I want to create a little script that adds the , and tags to some text. i.e. If I have the following text:

my $text = "This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1.

This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2.
This is a new line.
This is a new line.
This is a new line.
This is a new line.";

I want it to come out as:

Code

my $text = "<p>This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This 
is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. 
This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 
1. This is paragraph 1.</p> 
<p>This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 
2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is 
paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This 
is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2.<br> 
This is a new line.<br> 
This is a new line.<br> 
This is a new line.<br> 
This is a new line.</p>"

ie. just put the and at the beginning and end of the paragraph and put a tag if there is a new line.

Thanx

davorg
Thaumaturge / Moderator

Feb 2, 2005, 2:01 AM

Post #2 of 2 (1992 views)

Re: [inlimbo] HTML code generator [In reply to]	Can't Post

This seems to do the job on your text data.

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
my $text = 'This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 1. 
 
This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. This is paragraph 2. 
This is a new line. 
This is a new line. 
This is a new line. 
This is a new line.'; 
 
# Add <p> and </p> to start and end of text 
$text = "<p>$text</p>"; 
 
# Convert double newlines to </p>\n\n</p> 
$text =~ s|\n\n|</p>\n\n<p>|g; 
 
# Add a <br /> at the end of any non-blank line that doesn't 
# already end with </p> 
$text =~ s|\S(?<!</p>)\n|<br />\n|g; 
 
print $text;

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