#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$bcolor = q{#AAACCC};
$title = "My page";
$html_head = qq{$title};
$html_tail = q{};
$sep = q/| /;
$ssep = q/ | /;
$rsep = q/ | /;
$thead = q/};
$myt = getfile("mytable");
open(TARG, ">test.html") || die "Could not open output: $1\n";
print TARG $html_head . $thead;
$myt = alphasort($myt);
transform($myt);
print TARG $ttail . $html_tail;
close(TARG);
sub alphasort
# Sorts a string, seperated by newlines, back into a string
{
my $grab = shift;
my @holdr = split /\n/,$grab;
return join "\n",
sort {lc($a) cmp lc($b)} @holdr;
}
sub transform
# Writes to filehandle TARG table output based on the encoded string it gets
{
my $inpstr = shift;
my @ia = split /\n/, $inpstr;
foreach my $line (@ia)
{
next if $line =~ /^\W$/;
$line =~ s/^/$rsep$sep/;
$line =~ s/!!/$ssep/g;
$line =~ s/!/$sep/g;
print TARG $line;
}
}
sub getfile
# Reads argument as filename, returns scalar with contents
{
my $fn = shift;
open(FN, $fn) || die "Could not open $fn: $!\n";
local undef $/;
my $rstring = ;
close(FN);
return $rstring;
}