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question on multi line pattern matching for html formattingby tallCoolOne (Initiate) |
on May 17, 2009 at 08:33 UTC ( [id://764492]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
tallCoolOne has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I'm having a hard time with what I'm sure is a simple thing. I am making html pages out of a large number of text files. I have code that adds markup for everything I want except paragraph formatting. All of the text I am concerned with is in an array (@ThisFileArray), and it's just a bunch of text, with paragraphs separated by an extra newline. Kind of like this: Text blah blah, make my point here. More text and even more continuing on along the way. New paragraph starts here, there were 2 newlines just before I started this paragraph, so I should somehow be able to match on that, but I can't figure out how to search for that through my array. If I could do that, then I would search something like: s/\n\n/</p>\n\n\<p>/m so that I would add a close paragraph tag at the end of the previous paragraph, and an open paragraph tag at the beginning of the next. Of course, I want to add a <p> tag at the beginning of the array, to insert it at the beginning of the text, and then add one final </p> tag at the end of the text, to make everything really nice. The end result would be (ideally) something like this: <p>Text blah blah, make my point here. More text and even more continuing on along the way.</p> <p>New paragraph starts here, there were 2 newlines just before I started this paragraph, so I should somehow be able to match on that, but I can't figure out how to search for that through my array.</p> I have tried this: But clearly I am missing some key ingredient here, because it doesn't work. Can anyone provide some enlightenment to this frustrated newbie? Thanks so much. Mark
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