creating hyperlinked lists

valicon · Sep 26, 2000

I am trying to write a program in perl that will read my
data from a text file, parse it, and then format it out
on my webpage as hyperlinks and in alphabetical order.
However, all the books that I have, not one tells me how
to turn the text in the text file into a hyperlink and
sort it alphabetically. Please help!

goBoating · Sep 26, 2000

If your text file is pipe delimited.... looks like.......

Code:

URL | URL-label 
[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.someServer.com/|Link[/URL] to Some Server
[URL unfurl="true"]http://anotherServer.com|Link[/URL] to another server

and is named URLs.txt

Then,

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# print normal html stuff to get page going
print &quot;Content-Type: text/html\n\n&quot;;
print '<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>title here</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><P>';

# read the input file
open(IPF,&quot;<URLs.txt&quot;) or die;
while ($line = <IPF>) 
  {
  chop ($line);
  @fields = split(/\|/,$line);
  print '<a href=&quot;'.&quot;$fields[0]&quot;.'&quot;>'.&quot;$fields[1]&quot;.'</a><BR>';  
  }
close IPF;
print '</P></BODY></HTML>';

I typed this here and have not run it.....might have a minor typo....;^) but you get the ideas I hope.

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vcherubini · Sep 28, 2000

That helped more than one person, goBoating. Thanks for that.

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