Let me clarify.

I use a form to input information to a program to display a webpage. One part of that form is a text-area into which one can type input, or simply paste a Word document. I need a routine within the main program which will read the input from the text-area (call it $Description) and convert it to HTML for display in the webpage as directed. The routine I am presently using will do all of this except it does not indent the items in a bulleted or numbered list. Here is the present routine:


     my $newrecord="";
        my $fn=$Description;
        $fn =~ s/-RET-/<br>/g;
        $fn =~ s/\n/<br>/g;
        $fn =~ s/_/((22&%&%22))/g;          
        $newrecord .= "$fn";
        $Description=$newrecord;

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Suggestions as to what is missing will be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Re: Plain Text To HTML by Milti
in thread Plain Text To HTML by Milti

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