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in thread Formatting

Hey,
First of all, thanks to all who replied!

John, I like you sample script because, like you said, its flexible. I've tried it out and it works all well except one thing, after a </li>, when it has to start with another <li>, it does it all in the same line. I've tried adding a \n to the close string, but it isn't working, its getting outputted instead of interpreted.

Like I said before, I'm new in Perl and this is probably really easy to fix.

Thanks again! I really appreciate it :)
Marcos

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Re^3: Formatting
by wfsp (Abbot) on Jul 10, 2004 at 14:15 UTC
    Glad you liked it. I've put another condition in the if block:
      if ( $tag->{ $style }->{ block } and ! $block_flag ){
    $output = join( '',
                    $output,
                    $tag->{ $style }->{ block_open },
                    $line_out );
    $block_flag = $style;
  }
  elsif ( ! $tag->{ $style }->{ block } and $block_flag ){
    $output = join( '',
                    $output,
                    $tag->{ $block_flag }->{ block_close },
                    "\n",
                    $line_out,
                    "\n" );
    $block_flag = '';
  }
  elsif ( ! $tag->{ $style }->{ block } ){
    $output = join( '',
                    $output,
                    $line_out,
                    "\n" );
  }
  else{
    $output = join( '',
                    $output,
                    $line_out );
  }

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      Thanks again!

      Just got 2 questions that have arisen and should be easy to do now that you have kindly provided me with this script.

      First, the simplest, how do I add the '#' as one of the first characters to check? I have tried adding another one of those blocks, but as you know Perl's comment character is #. Adding "\#" didn't help either. How can I express this in a way that will work without Perl interpreting it as a comment?

      And lastly, how can I make the "K" statements be separated as "Perl,%Monks,%Is,%Cool"? I've experimented with adding a ",". For example:
      my $tag = { K => { open => ',%',
      close => '',
      block => 1,
      block_open => '<p>',
      block_close => '</p>'

      But as you probably realized, this has a nasty habit of adding an extra "," even to the first statement, as in ,%Perl,%Monks,%Is,%Cool .

      I want you to know that I really appreciate the help you have provided so far, since I'm very close to having this finished and saving me tons of future hours :)

      Best Regards,
      Marcos
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        Important: read the health warning below.

        Does a # in the data indicate a comment? If it does the code below skips lines begining with a #. If I have not understood you correctly, please give an example of the data.
        The code also adds a comma to each 'inline' style.
        I've added a variable to help make the code clearer.

        Health warning
        There is more than one way to do this! This is how I do it and it is heavily influenced by the fact that my main experience in coding is vb which makes most people around here shudder! For example, in Programing Perl, a long list of elsifs is frowned on. I tell myself that as I'm using the less well known 'baby idiom' (to be polite) it is ok. Until, at least, I learn a better way.
        Also my main motive for helping is to hone my own skills (which badly need honing).

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