I'm still not getting it, I'm afraid. Would this be defined at the top of a file, as in "here's a list of words and their associated links" or *within* the file, as in only certain occurrences of the words will get linked, and that link is determined by what follows the 'pipe' symbol.

Example #1 

cult|http://www.slashdot.org
banana|/orange.html

Being in a cult can reduce your ability to eat a banana, doctors claim
+.

[download]

Example #2

Being in a cult|http://www.slashdot.org can reduce your ability to eat
+ bananas|/orange.html , doctors claim.

[download]

if the latter, it's so close to HTML already it's almost not worth the work of writing a script. But whatever. If the former, what you could to do is read the word/url pairs into a hash, and do something like what I suggested above. Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Auto linking to words in a text file by arturo
in thread Auto linking to words in a text file by belize

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