HTML: Syntax highlightning for perl-Code

[strat]

Dear monks,

the people from http://www.perl-community.de/ (was http://www.perl.de in the past) want to make editing for german Perl-HowTo's much easier, and are looking for a script to automatically highlight the syntax of perl-code displayed in HTML (like some good editors do it).

Please, could you help me and give me some links if you know that somebody has already written something in that direction?

I want to avoid writing something like that if possible, because I have to code a lot in the moment, and can't use several days on this code in the moment.

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

[castaway]

Syntax::Highlight::Perl is probably what you're looking for. (Thanks to: Scribble for telling me that).

C.

[ViceRaid]

Hi

As castaway says, you want Syntax::Highlight::Perl. I've been using it recently, and it's great, but (since you mention you're short of time) I also found looking at some fine highlighter demo code by the author of the module helped me get going with the module really quickly.

Have fun
ViceRaid

Update: As Podmaster pointed out, bbfu is in fact also the author of Syntax::Highlight::Perl. Credit where credit's due.

[gjb]

You'll want a look at perltidy.

Just my 2 cents, -gjb-

Update: I just remembered http://gnu.j1b.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html which is a gnu project. Unfortunately the link currently doesn't seem to work. I used it for some languages (C, Java), and I think it works for Perl too.

[grantm]

Coincidentally, I just installed source-highlight today. Yes it does work for Perl, except it doesn't seem to recognise =cut so everything after the start of the first POD section gets flagged as a comment :-(

[RMGir]

perltidy -html.

Using the -nss option to suppress style sheets, and trimming out a few things:


hello.pl

---

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

for(1..2) {
    print "Hello, world #$_!\n";
}


--
Mike

[bobn]

This looks promising:

perltidy

I've only played with this a little, just now. You'll want to read the doc.

I've just used this command line:  perltidy -html -nss -html-color-keyword=ff000000  somefile.pl The doc says -nss should only be neeeded for older (per-NS4) browsers, but I didn't get color without it, even in Mozilla 1.2.1. However, the doc also advised not using the -html-color options and editting the style-sheet - it looks like if you don't want to edit the style-sheet, then using the -html-color and the -nss options are the way to go.

Also, it produced some pecuoiar error messages. On the positive side, it sed pod2html, so also produced html for the pod sections. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

[naChoZ]

This node from a previous thread is also relevent.

~~
naChoZ

[Tommy]

You can check out the Scintilla Project and it's free cross-platform editor with syntax higlighting support for many, many languages. It's written in C, so depending on your project you may be able to simply borrow it's Perl lexer.

The free editor is called SciTE (Scintilla Text Editor) and it has the ability to export source code (in syntax-highlighted style) to HTML, RTF, PDF, and LaTeX formats. I use it to export syntax-highlighted Perl code in HTML when I post code at the ooOPps! Code Library.

--
Tommy Butler, a.k.a. TOMMY

[adamk]

It's a little slower, but you may also want to take a look at the PPI module.

It currently works great for syntax highlighting, although it's eventually meant as a more general perl parser.

Demos at

http://ali.as/cgi-bin/CPAN/samples/PPI/syntax/cgi.pl

(Yes, this is blatant self interest, but hey, it still handles perl syntax highlighting better than anything else I've ever seen)