Converting to html tags...

[kiat]

Hi,

I would like to know if anybody has written or knows of any module or a simple sub that does the work of replacing tags like

[b]Text\[/b]
[glow]Text[/glow]

in a block of text with their corresponding html tags

<b>Text</b>

I need it for a small discussion board I'm coding and I'm hoping that there's a module or sub out there that I can depend on for the conversion.

[kvale]

I do not know of any module that will do this specifically, but direct tag replacement could be accomplished with regexps:

while (<FILE>) {
   s/\[b\]/<b>/g;
   s|\[/b\]|</b>|g;
   # etc. ...
}

[Tomte]

this is based on slashcodes html-cleaning sub, any error big or small is my fault. use with caution, may produce "transitional" html ;), extracts links and uses the hostname as link-text, allows links in the form

[link-text=url]

needs URI.
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At least something to play with...

[merlyn]

You might find Text::WikiFormat adaptable to your needs.

[Vautrin]

Although I'm not sure of any module per se, there are a bunch of Open Source (Perl and non perl based) Wiki / Forum / etc scripts. Perhaps you could use the code from one of these? (Assuming, of course, it is permissible)

[PodMaster]

See Why I like functional programming and in particular the reply Functional take 2. You may also wanna checkout Re: Proper nesting of HTML to be enforced (the code), cause that's how perlmonks does it (of course you'd have to change the < > to [ ], but no biggie).

[pbeckingham]

For specifically the two tags shown (ignoring the stray backslash in the example), I would use:

  $text =~ s/\[(b|glow)\]/<$1>/g;

But for a general case, if one even exists, I would use:

  $text =~ s/\[([^\]]+)\]/<$1>/g;

But this is more dangerous, as those square brackets are in my opinion likely to occur in text.