Thanks for your answer, marto.

The parsing worked.

But how to "capture the output into a new html file"?

I used the following command:

"perl scriptname.pl inputfile.html > result.html".

In the result.html file that was generated, I added the stylesheet indicated:

<style type="text/css">
.lineNum {
position: absolute;
left: 550px;
}
</style>
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But the result.html file didn't show any line numbers.

What may I have done wrong?

P.S. - I've compared the original and the result file, before adding the stylesheet, and they are exactly the same. So the parsing didn't work as it should.

perl shake.pl lear.htm > learout.htm
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Adding the style sheet as instructed produced results for me, every 5th line is numbered on the right hand side.

Update: should you wish line numbers to be displayed at a different frequency the part of the code which deals with this is fairly simple to alter.

Update 2: Observations from your youtube video:

• The output file is larger than the input file. This is good, something has changed.
• The Shakespeare dir is missing a sub directory. When I saved a play it generated:

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="lear_files
+/shake.css">
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Directory/file

C:\>dir lear_files
 Volume in drive C is XP MP 3.01
 Volume Serial Number is CE02-00E2

 Directory of C:\lear_files

15/02/2013  09:39    <DIR>          .
15/02/2013  09:39    <DIR>          ..
15/02/2013  09:39               259 shake.css
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If you don't have this css in the location (note that in your file it's looking for /shake.css) it won't render properly on screen. Get this file, save it to your Shakespeare directory.

Update 3: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/shake.css

Now it worked.

I just had to save "complete webpage" instead of "single HTML".

Thanks a lot, marto!