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in thread Adding Line Numbers to the MIT Shakespeare

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.

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Re^5: Adding Line Numbers to the MIT Shakespeare
by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 15, 2013 at 09:42 UTC 
    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

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      Now it worked.

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

      Thanks a lot, marto!

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