Hi all,

Applogies first off, this is my second question today (it's not a good day here at work)

I have a perl script that takes a list of file names and then cleans up the HTML that a certain Word Processor has produced as the HTML output.

I want to modify this so that if there is text in the document that should be a hyperlink but is not such as...

http://www.google.com

I want to identify that and change it to... <a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a> so that it produces a nice link like http://www.google.com

My current code to tidy up the HTML looks something like..


#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach $fname (@ARGV){
    print "Processing: $fname\n";
    open (FILE, $fname) || die("Cannot open file $fname! ($!)\n");

    $file = join( "", <FILE>);
    close(FILE);

    rename ($fname, $fname.".bak");

    $file =~ s/<META NAME=.*?>\n//gis;

    $file =~ s/<P STYLE.*?>/<P>/gis;

    $file =~ s/&ndash\;/-/gis;
    $file =~ s/&rdquo\;/\"/gis;
    $file =~ s/&ldquo\;/\"/gis;
    
    $file =~ s/<FONT.*?>//gis;
    $file =~ s/<\/FONT>//gis;
    $file =~ s/<SPAN.*?>//gis;
    $file =~ s/<\/SPAN>//gis;

    open (FILE, ">$fname");
    print FILE $file;
}

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Anybody written anything likes this before or know a quick Perl-ish way of doing it?

Thanks in advance

M

Edit by tye, remove PRE tag around wide line

In reply to Finding & creating links in HTML files by heezy

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