RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration

raymontag has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

I write a script to parse wikicode to latex. Now I search for a way to parse an enumeration. Something like

# foo
# bar
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should look like this after parsing:

\begin{enumerate}
\item foo
\item bar
\end{enumerate}
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I think RegEx is a good way to do that but I don't know how to solve this special problem.

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Re: RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration by jethro (Monsignor) on Apr 06, 2011 at 12:24 UTC
It would have been a good idea to post your script or a relevant part of it here so that we might see where to fit it in. Now you have to see for yourself how this might fit in with your code `my $ennumerate=0; ... #you probably have a loop like this in your script? while ($line=<$fh>) { #insert this into the loop: if ($ennumerate==1) { if ($line=~/^#(.)/) { print "\\item $1\n"; } else { $ennumerate=0; print "\\end{enumerate}\n"; } else { if ($line=~/^#(.)/) { print "\\begin{enumerate}\n"; print "\\item $1"; $ennumerate=1; } } ... }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration by raymontag (Initiate) on Apr 06, 2011 at 15:53 UTC
Thanks! I hadn't the idea to use a loop but this fits perfectly.	[reply]
Re: RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration by andreas1234567 (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2011 at 12:47 UTC
Unless this is an academic exercise, you might want to have a look at wikipdf (written in Python, released under GPL). -- No matter how great and destructive your problems may seem now, remember, you've probably only seen the tip of them. [1]	[reply]
Re^2: RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration by raymontag (Initiate) on Apr 06, 2011 at 15:54 UTC
I write this script for fun and practise.	[reply]
Re: RegEx for parsing wiki enumeration by vkon (Curate) on Apr 06, 2011 at 12:55 UTC
hmm.... is this even possible? :o Report your teacher, that, by making it looks like simple task, she gave you unresolvable task. However trying to solve such tasks is useful for learning programming languages, so maybe she is right....	[reply]