Re: italicize an email message

Just one word? Regexp is your solution. I assume you're using HTML output?


open(FILE, "file.txt") or die "$!";

while (<FILE>) {
  $_ =~ /$word/<em>$word</em>/;
}
print $_;

close(FILE);
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Disclaimer: This code hasn't been tested!

--Coplan

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Re: Re: italicize an email message by feanor_269 (Beadle) on Apr 09, 2003 at 19:27 UTC
perhaps `$_ =~ /$word/<em>$word</em>/;` should be `$_ =~ s/$word/<em>$word</em>/;` feanor_269	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: italicize an email message by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 09, 2003 at 22:39 UTC
Well ... it should be `$_ =~ s/\Q$word\E/<em>$word</em>/g;` Jenda Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Rick Osborne Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: italicize an email message by Anonymous Monk on Apr 10, 2003 at 14:32 UTC
I'm not using HTML as my output....I'm not sure exactly how or why I should? Let me explain a little better my problem. There is this mass email that has to be sent out to various people within my company. The message I have to send has a word that needs to be italicized. I am using NET::SMTP to send the email so the message is just text. thanks again	[reply]
Re (3): italicize an email message by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Apr 10, 2003 at 15:13 UTC
That's the point others are trying to make: you can't use italics in a plain text message. To do so, you either need HTML, or RTF, or something similar. You can send a multipart email using MIME, but again, the plain text portion will not have any font formatting, only the HTML or RTF portion.	[reply]