Processing Chat Logs

jrnewquist has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have some very large plaintext chat (IRC, MUSH) logs that I would like to process into basic HTML, but with some special considerations.

Like, every time I find a certain string in the middle of a line, I want there to be a FONT tag at the beginning of the line, and a un-FONT at the end.

Or, every time the line starts with a certain string, I want to give the line some other FONT tag. ...This type of thing.

Are there any scripts out there which do this? If not, any pointers on how I can get started on writing my own?

Thanks a lot!

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Re: Processing Chat Logs by Chady (Priest) on Oct 01, 2002 at 20:02 UTC
I did a small msn2html snippet... you can easily convert that to parse other type of logs. 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]
Re: Processing Chat Logs by robartes (Priest) on Oct 01, 2002 at 21:32 UTC
this calls for a regex or two. Something like this should do nicely: `open LOG, "<$logfile" or die "Blerch: $!\n"; while (<LOG>) { if (/string-in-the-middle/) {print "<FONT>$_</FONT>";} if (/^string-at-the-beginning/) {print "<SOME_OTHER_FONT>$_</SOME_OT +HER_FONT>";} }` [download] If you want the non-matching lines as well, you'll have to dress this up a bit more. CU Robartes-	[reply] [d/l]