Re: [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module!


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Re: [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module!

by Corion (Patriarch)

on Nov 30, 2008 at 13:21 UTC ( [id://726898]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I'm not sure if it does what you mean, but shouldn't the following do what you need?

use HTML::Entities;

my $ascii = <<'ASCII';
The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy god.
ASCII;

my $html = encode_entities($ascii);
$html =~ s/\r?\n/<br>/g;

print "<pre>$html</pre>";
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I'm unaware of any module doing that in its entirety, but maybe you want to just serve up the ascii page with Content-Type: text/plain instead of Content-Type: text/html ?

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Re^2: [ASCII 2 HTML] Appearently unable to find simple module!
by blazar (Canon) on Nov 30, 2008 at 14:10 UTC

I personally believe that it does exactly what I need, except that as I wrote in the root node I would probably further wrap the the <pre> tags in <div> ones, and that's what I meant with "concocting up a solution of my own." (I can't remember the exact expression I used, but that's not fundamental...)

As a side note, it's not a matter of serving the page in any particular way: I'm just generating a standalone HTML single file for visualization purpose playing a little with css settings. It's not really a webby thing if you know what I mean...

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