Hi Jamie, On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:46:08AM -0400, Jamie Risk wrote: > I'm trying to add HTML anchors to a lines of text. Quick example would be > to take the line: > "Search the internet using an engine like Google." > and turn it into: > "Search the internet using an engine like <a > href="www.google.com">Google</a>."
> I can do this in a hacking sort of manner but it'll be slow and inelegant. > I apologize for asking for design template/suggestions rather than > help, Don't sweat it--those qualify as help too. Personally, I think it shows you're thinking. As always, TIMTOWDI. The best way depends on other constraints--where are you planning on running this? What kind of load will it see? How cross-platform does it need to be? etc. One solution is to tokenize your files yourself, then Reduce To Problem Already Solved. (*) You can do a rough version of that with something as simple as: my $delims = qr/[^-\w']+/; my @tokens = split /$delims/o, $text_of_file; Or you can check CPAN (there is a Parse::Tokens module, but I haven't used it; there are probably others too). Another way is to do a s/$token/$replacement/eg on the text of your file...it may not work perfectly, but it should go a long way. A heavier-weight solution would be to use a real templating system like Mason, The Template Toolkit, or Text::Template (to name a few...I think CPAN has over 20). Mason and TTT both come very highly recommended to me. --Dks (*) Note that tokenizing English is hard--how do you handle hyphens vs em-dashes (this sentence offering examples of each)? You can't forget the 'apostrophes vs single-quotes' issue either, and remember that some possessive words' apostrophes are at the end. How about abbreviations with embedded punctuation (e.g. i.e.)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
