Thanks alex (also my middle name) for getting back to me!

Yes that is what I have to do!

I have this, 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use English; 
use diagnostics; 

print "html body\n"; 


while ($line = <>) {

    if ($line =~ m/Emma [[:punct:]]/) { 
    print "h2 $line h2\n"; 
    } 
    
    if ($line =~ m/CHAPTER (.*)/) { 
    
        print "h2 $line h2\n"; 
    } 
       
    if ($line =~ m/Jane Austen/) { 
    
        print "h2 $line h2\n"; 
    }
          
        if ($line =~ m/VOLUME (.*)/) { 
        print "h2 $line h2\n"; 
}
           
    
    if ( not ( $line =~ m/Jane Austen/) ) { 
    if ( not ( $line =~ m/Emma [[:punct:]]/)) { 
    if ( not ( $line =~ m/CHAPTER (.*)/)) { 
    if ( not ( $line =~ m/VOLUME (.*)/)) { 
  
  
 
    $line =~ s|\b_|<i>|g; 

    $line =~ s|_\b|</i>|g; 

    print $line; 
} 
} 
} 
} 
} 
print "body html\n";

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This should do everything but not the paragraph elements! Any guidance would be great! I have left out the "<" brackets so that it will display properly

Edit by tye: Add CODE tags

In reply to Re^4: Replacement and conversion of flat file text documents by imhotep
in thread Replacement and conversion of flat file text documents by imhotep

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