Hi All, I am a newbie here. Just started to do a little perl programming after a lot of C in ancient times.
Now I am doing a sail race scoring system and it is already working well.

My problem is that the race results come from a game called Virtual Skipper and the boat names in this game are formatted
like this: "$s$5aaD$ddfia$5aaD$ddfe$5cc§"
Within the game this gives you a coloured output with different formats of the letters. I have googled around a lot to find out what style this is but found nothing.
Actually I want to print out this boat name on a HTML result list in the same way that they look inside the game.

Does anybody know what style this names are formatted at? Is there a converter already that converts from that style to HTML?

Any help appreciated

Thanks Thomas

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