I am writing a wiki2html conversion subroutine and need help when it comes to lists and tables. Wiki syntax for a lists and tables is as follows:

Unorderd List:

* level 1
** level 2
*** level 3
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Ordered Lists

# level 1
## level 2
### level 3
#3 restart numbering from 3
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Tables

[col1][col2][col3]
[col1][col2][col3]
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Any suggestions on how to do this? Here is what I have so far.

Update: I tried several existing modules with no success but I was able to get it working on my own... Code updated to reflect my changes.

use strict;
my $text=qq|
-This is a h1 title
''This is italized''
and here, ''''this is bold'''' on this line
''''''this is bold italic'''''' on this line
----
*list1
**list2
***list3

#unordered list1
##unordered list2
###unordered list3

[''''name''''][''color''][''''''age'''''']
[bob][red][32]
[fred][orange][55]

|;


my $html=wiki2html($text);
print $html;
exit;
#############
sub wiki2html{
    my $str=shift || return;
    #http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/Wiki_Markup
    #----  <hr>
    #At the beginning, - <h1>, -- <h2>, --- <h3>
    #Unorderd lists *, **
    #Ordered lists #, ##
    #tables [col1][col2]
    #''sdfs'' <i>, ''''sdfs'''' <b>, ''''''sddfs'''''' <b><i>
    my @lines=split(/[\r\n]/,$str);
    my $linecnt=@lines;
    my $dot='&#' . '9679' . ';';
    my $space='&' . 'nbsp' . ';';
    my %Marker=(
        ul => 0,
        ol => 0,
        table => 0,
        );
    for(my $x=0;$x<$linecnt;$x++){
        $lines[$x]=strip($lines[$x]);
        my $original=$lines[$x];
        my $break=1;
        #----  <hr>
        $lines[$x]=~s/\-{4,4}/\<hr size\=\"1\"\>/sig;
        #At the beginning, - <h1>, -- <h2>, --- <h3>
        if($lines[$x]=~/^(\-{1,3})(.+)/s){
            my $dashes=$1;
            my $txt=$2;
            my $count = $dashes =~ tr/\-//;
            $lines[$x]=qq|<h$count>$txt</h$count>|;
            $break=0;
               }
        #Unorderd lists *, **
        if($lines[$x]=~/^([\*\.\0]+)(.+)/s){
            my $stars=$1;
            my $txt=$2;
            my $count = $stars =~ tr/[\*\.\0]//;
            #$txt .= qq|<!-- ul: $Marker{ul} ,$count -->|;
            if($count > $Marker{ul}){
                $lines[$x]="<ul><li>" . $txt;
                $Marker{ul}=$count;
                            }
            elsif($count == $Marker{ul}){
                $lines[$x]="<li>" . $txt;
                            }
                    else{
                $lines[$x] = "</ul>";
                if(length($txt)){$lines[$x] .= "<li>" . $txt ;}
                $Marker{ul}=$count;
                }
            $break=0;
               }
        elsif($Marker{ul}){
            for(my $u=0;$u<$Marker{ul};$u++){
                $lines[$x] = "</ul>" . $lines[$x];
                            }
                    $Marker{ul}=0;
                    }
            #Orderd lists #, ##
        if($lines[$x]=~/^([\#]+)(.+)/s){
            my $stars=$1;
            my $txt=$2;
            my $count = $stars =~ tr/[\#]//;
            #$txt .= qq|<!-- ul: $Marker{ul} ,$count -->|;
            if($count > $Marker{ol}){
                $lines[$x]="<ol><li>" . $txt;
                $Marker{ol}=$count;
                            }
            elsif($count == $Marker{ol}){
                $lines[$x]="<li>" . $txt;
                            }
                    else{
                $lines[$x] = "</ol>";
                if(length($txt)){$lines[$x] .= "<li>" . $txt ;}
                $Marker{ol}=$count;
                }
            $break=0;
               }
        elsif($Marker{ol}){
            for(my $u=0;$u<$Marker{ol};$u++){
                $lines[$x] = "</ol>" . $lines[$x];
                            }
                    $Marker{ol}=0;
                    }
        if(length($lines[$x])==0){$break=0;}
        #''sdfs'' <i>, ''''sdfs'''' <b>, ''''''sddfs'''''' <b><i>
                $lines[$x]=~s/\'{6,6}(.+?)\'{6,6}/<b><i>\1<\/i><\/b>/s
+ig;
                $lines[$x]=~s/\'{4,4}(.+?)\'{4,4}/<b>\1<\/b>/sig;
                $lines[$x]=~s/\'{2,2}(.+?)\'{2,2}/<i>\1<\/i>/sig;

        #links [[ ]]
        if($lines[$x]=~/\[\[(.+?)\]\]/s){
            $lines[$x]=~s/\[\[(.+?)\]\]/\<a href=\"\1\"\ target="_new"
+>\1<\/a>/sg;
            }
        #tables [col1][col2]
        my @cols=();
            while($lines[$x]=~/\[(.+?)\]/sg){
            push(@cols,$1);
                    }
            my $colcnt=@cols;
        if($colcnt){
            $break=0;
            $lines[$x]='';
            if(!$Marker{table}){
                $lines[$x] .= qq|<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2
+" border="1" style="border-collapse:collapse">\n|;
                $Marker{table}=1;
                }
            $lines[$x] .= "<tr>";
            foreach my $col (@cols){$lines[$x] .= qq|<td>$col</td>|;}
                        $lines[$x] .= "</tr>";
            }
        elsif($Marker{table}){
            $lines[$x] = "</table>";
            $Marker{table}=0;
                    }
        #$lines[$x]=qq|<!--colcnt:$colcnt, table:$Marker{table}, Origi
+nal: $original -->\n| . $lines[$x];
        if($break){$lines[$x] .= "<br>";}
        }
    if($Marker{ul}){
        for(my $u=0;$u<$Marker{ul};$u++){
            push(@lines,"</ul>");
                    }
        $Marker{ul}=0;
            }
    if($Marker{ol}){
        for(my $u=0;$u<$Marker{ol};$u++){
            push(@lines,"</ol>");
                    }
        $Marker{ol}=0;
            }
    if($Marker{table}){
        push(@lines,"</table>");
        $Marker{table}=0;
        }
    return join("\r\n",@lines);
    }
###############
sub strip{
    #usage: $str=strip($str);
    #info: strips off beginning and endings returns, newlines, tabs, a
+nd spaces
    my $str=shift;
    if(length($str)==0){return;}
    $str=~s/^[\r\n\s\t]+//s;
    $str=~s/[\r\n\s\t]+$//s;
    return $str;
    }
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2006-02-13 Retitled by Steve_p, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'wiki2html'