Turn perl or C program listings into html with line numbers. Link header, module, data or other files to the source.

I use this all the time for my own hompage when I try to get help with programs I am writing. Let me know what you think.

WEBIFY.PL 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Text::Tabs;

$tabstop = 4;
$target = shift @ARGV;

open ( FILE, "<$target");
chomp ( @code = <FILE> );
close FILE;
foreach $line (@code)
        {
                $line =~ s/\</&#60;/;
                $line =~ s/\>/&#62;/;
                $line = expand ($line);
        }
unshift @code, "<ol>";
unshift @code, "<code>";

while (@ARGV)
        {
                # add links to page
                # use filename description
                $linkname     = shift;
                $linkdescrip  = shift;
                $link_html = qq\ <a href="$linkname">$linkdescrip</a><
+br>\;
                print "Link = $link_html \n";
                unshift @code, $link_html;
        }

unshift @code,"<body>";
unshift @code,"<title> $target </title>";
unshift @code, "<html>";
push @code, "</ol>";
push @code, "<" . "/code>";  # split to fool PM formatting!
push @code, "</body>";
push @code, "</html>";

open (FILE,">".$target.".html");
$body = 0;
foreach $line (@code)
  {
        if ( ( $line =~ m/^#.*/)  ||
             ( $line =~ m/^\/\*/ )     ||
             ( $line =~ m/^[a-zA-Z0-9_]/) )
                {
                        $body = 1;
                }
        if ($line =~ m/^\<\/ol\>/)
                {
                        $body = 0;
                }
        if ($body)
                {
                        print FILE "<LI>".$line."\n";
                }
        else    {
                        print FILE $line."\n";
                }
 }
close FILE;

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In reply to webify by talwyn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


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