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That's some pretty ugly HTML (both versions), so I'm going to hope there are some typos in it. You may want to use a module to parse that, or if the tags will always be the same, strip it out with a regex. But once you've got your title, you can get your acronym with something like this:

my $title = "Part II: Nietzsche's Project, An Overall Review";
my $acronym = join '', ($title =~ /(?:^|\s+)(\w)/g);
say $acronym;  # -> PINPAOR

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That'll give you a string containing each word character that follows the start of the string or a group of whitespace characters. You could narrow \w further to just take capital letters or whatever you like.

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Re^2: search and using first letter of words on a line
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2011 at 12:10 UTC

    <quote>That's some pretty ugly HTML (both versions), so I'm going to hope there are some typos in it.</quote>

    Yeap. Not as pretty as it could be, but very ideal for my situation. I need to make pages for phone (almost) as lean as possible while navigatable because the phon is old enough to struggle opening files larger than 50K.

    <quote>or if the tags will always be the same, strip it out with a regex.</quote>

    Exactly. The tags in any given document will be the same, but the heading title words from which I want to strip the first letter to make link href and name are different, so it needs to find first letter of words and combine them for link ids. Then I use sed to create my TOC at the top of the page. appreciate a kick in the right direction. nap

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      Does your phone understand CSS? That could make the resulting code a lot leaner, if you could specify your smaller font size once instead of with a font tag on every paragraph.

      /* in the <head> of the page */
<style type='text/css'>
p {
font-size:.7em; /* or whatever works */
}
</style>

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