in reply to Re^2: Game Nicknames to HTML
in thread Game Nicknames to HTML

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?)

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Re^4: Game Nicknames to HTML
by baltic.sailor (Novice) on Mar 29, 2009 at 14:02 UTC
    Ok, thank you for your support.
    I was hoping to find something existing but if there is nothing then I will see if I will do the work or just go with an extra database table to "translate" the string.
    Some further information: It will run on Win and Linux. Database is mysql. Race results are CSV Files that I parse with perl and insert results to mysql. After that another perl script is doing the math to calculate the result scores according to ISAF (International Sailing Federation). The results are stored in mysql too and the last step is to create a HTML page with the results on the web.

    It would have been nice to present the boat names as they are defined in the game but I can find ways around that. My time is limited at the moment and I am new to perl that was why I thought it would be good to ask if there is a simple solution.

    Thanks and best regards
    Thomas