Takes a plain text database, delimited by pipes (|) and rips the html version.
#!/usr/bin/perl 
# Written by Stefan Edwards <The Stray Walrus> 
# email: straydog43@hotmail.com 
# usage: htmldb <filename>
die "Fatal:Inncorrect Parameters: <$0> [filename]" unless $ARGV[0];
@file = split(/\./,$ARGV[0]);
$output = $file[0].".html";
open (IN, "<$ARGV[0]") or die "Fatal:$!\n";
open (OUT, ">$output") or die "Fatal:$!\n";
print OUT "<html><head><title>$file[0]</title></head>\n";
print OUT "<body>\n";
print OUT "<table>\n";

while ($line = <IN>) {
        @linedb = split(/\|/,$line);
    print OUT "<tr>\n";
    for($i = 0; $i < scalar @linedb; $i++) {
                 chomp($linedb[$i]);
                 print OUT "\t<td>".$linedb[$i]."</td>\n";
    }
    print OUT "</tr>\n";
}
close (IN);
print OUT "</table></body></html>\n";
close (OUT);

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