OK... then one issue is "What does 'shadowed' mean and is it even important (as opposed to mere decoration)?"

What you list is some kind of markup language, which could be tedious to deal with by hand. OTOH, given ambrus insights, it's one which you can automate with a script using CGI, one or more regular expressions, and other modules (possibly Data::Formatter and -- depending on your html and Perl skills -- one of the templating solutions for creating webpages).

But, at this point, developing a solution is yours to begin. If you get stuck, show us the code you've written and describe how it fails to achieve your goal. And it would still be well to provide a bit more detail, given that we don't know what OS (OSen?) you're using, nor how you intend to use what you originally characterized as a "scoring system." (Is the output going to a public webserver; just to your console (in which case, you can ignore CGI); or something else?)

In reply to Re^3: Game Nicknames to HTML by ww
in thread Game Nicknames to HTML by baltic.sailor

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