Re: Reading data from a document.txt

I can't get the data the way the user typed it in!

What do you mean? If the user typed his message in a plain text, there shouldn't be any difficutly displaying it back the way it was typed. Are you dealing with some sort of custom formatting? Could you please tell us more about your problem and probably include the script you've got so far.

For the record, I should mention that there are already zillions of free scripts (in Perl) that can do the job awesomely for you. Unless you want to learn how to do it on your own, I'd suggest looking through this google search results and see if there's any readily available script that you might like.

_____________________ open(I,$0);<I>;$~=$/;$/='~';$_=<I>;($/)=/(.)$~/;s/[$~~]//g;/(v)/;$-=$-[0];s;\Q$/\E;$~;g;($/,$^)=/^(.)(.)/; #% xxxxxx xx-+ xx xxx xx xx xx xx xxx xxxxx+ xx xx xxxx xxxxx ......+ #x xxxxvxxx xx xx xv xxxx x+ %+ ===== xx xx xx xx x+ =x xx xx xx xx xx ...+ #x xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xxx+ xxxxxx xx +x xx xx+x- xxxx xxxx ........+ #% xx xx xx xx xx xx xx x+ xx xx =+=== xx xx xxxx-xx xx =x +x xx xx xx xx ...+ #% xx xx xx -+x+ xxx+ xx xx xx xx xx x+ xx xxx+xx xx xx xxxx xx xx ....+~ for(split/$~/){s,[ $/],,g;/(.)$/;$l=$-[0];/(.)/||next;$_=chr$-+$l;$".=($1=~/$^/)?" \u$_":$_;}print$";

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Re: Re: Reading data from a document.txt by Chady (Priest) on Jun 12, 2002 at 14:02 UTC
Not forgetting NMS to avoid the regular ;) He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life. Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply]