ever had an important multi-person discussion on MSN Messenger that you wanted to keep a log of? How frustrating is to read in between the lines afterwards.

This is a simple snippet that takes a saved msn log file and outputs a nice formatted HTML. Useful for conversations with more than two persons.

--Chady
#!perl -w
use strict;

use vars qw/%names $file @lines $i $turn @colors/;

$file = shift || &usage;
@colors = qw/blue red green violet orange/;

open IN, "<", $file or die "Cannot read file '$file' : $!\n";
chomp(@lines = <IN>);
close IN;


open OUT, ">", "$file.html" or die "hmm... $file.html can't seem to be
+ written : $!\n";
print OUT qq|<html><dl>\n|;

foreach (@lines) {

    if (/^(.*?) says:$/) {
        $names{$1} = $i++ unless defined $names{$1};
        $turn = $names{$1};
        print OUT qq|<dt>&lt;<strong><font color="$colors[$turn]">$1</
+font></strong>&gt; |;
    } else {
        print OUT qq|<font color="$colors[$turn]">$_</font></dt>\n|;
    }
}
print OUT qq[</dl></html>];
close OUT;

    
sub usage {
    print qq[Usage: msn2html <file>\n\twhere <file> is the file you wa
+nt to process\n\n];
    exit 0;
}

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