One of the scripts I am working on for my site will be taking stories people have writen in microsoft word (or another text eidt like it) and displaying it on my web page. I have two majore issues. I am not sure how to get all the formating and what not to display (as of right now all the formating is just displayed as garbage) and the other is how to get to wrap when needed inside the space give. You can see the whole issue at http://www.ffinfo.com/fanfic/ffviii/story.pl?The%20Story%20After%20the%20Story Right now I am using just a simple open FILE print <FILE> system as I have never dealt with reading text and displaying. So any help would be great.

In reply to Displaying text files with perl. by Anonymous Monk

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