This might sound fairly simple, but here goes, and I will try to explain to the best of my knowledge. I need to make a simple perl script, the script needs to take a .txt file, with the name that I choose at the time of coding, lets name the file mytextfile.txt for the time being. So, the script would take the information from the text file and place it into a properly formatted HTML file, one that is simple <html><head><title>Title</title><head><html> and then <body> and insert the proper
where is finds a break it lines. Hopefully that is fairly simple enough to explain. The next question that I would like to know is does anyone know how I could possibly do a word count and if possible search out some certain words that I have chosen, say, the word "the" and either possibly change every instance of the word to a different color or perhaps to a bold or an italic. If any of you can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, P.S. All the input files and words that I would like to change would be hard coded no need to be able to change them on the fly. And if you could tell me how to recognize line breaks and things like that or give me a quick explanation on it it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again

In reply to Need help with a Simple File, transferring a plain text document to a plain HTML document by Anonymous Monk

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