Question

I have a plain text file that looks like this –

234234 some text

345435 some text

23423 some text

I would like to convert this to HTML either by vbscript, perl or something else so that it looks nice when emailed out. That is maybe I can make the numbers Bolded etc.

Any ideas on how i can do this?

thanks

Answer 1

If your file is as simple as you have written, something like perl -ne 'chomp; s!^(\d+)!<b>$1</b>!; print "$_<br />\n"' inputfile.txt will do what you have asked.

However if your source is any more complex than this, look into one of the many html formatting modules on CPAN