This converts Netscape (4.7) bookmarks.html to a hash. Sort of. It prints out what a hash would look like so you can just concatenate it to a script youre working on. The heart of this is a regular expression, some credit for which is due to japhy. I used this to create a cgi for my bookmarks from several different machines (work, home, laptop, etcetera) that I had been running linux on.

I have only tested this on linux boxes.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $bms;
{ local $/; my $file = shift; open BMS, $file; $bms = <BMS> }

my @html = split /<DT>/, $bms;

foreach my $link (@html) {
  my ($dest, $name) = $link =~ m#<A HREF="([^"]+)"[^>]*>([^<]+)</A>#;
  print <<"EOF";
  {
  '$name' =>
  '$dest'
  },
EOF
}

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