<link> not clickable from text document
M. Lewis
_fedoralist_ at cajuninc.com
Sun Jul 31 07:54:13 UTC 2005
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> I have many, many, many links like:
>
> http://www.foo.com/
> http://www.bar.com/
>
> with one per line, in a text file. is there a simple way to convert that to
>
>
> <a href="http://www.foo.com/">foo</a>
>
> or something similar, so that the links are "clickable" in mozilla?
>
> It's not a html question per se, or maybe it is, I dunno :)
>
>
> I imagine that a script could do it, but I don't know how to write a
> script (at least nothing like that).
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Actually, I always found it annoying that microsoft word makes links
> clickable whether you want that or not. Hey, maybe I found a use for
> that "feature" :)
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thufir
>
Thufir, I'm not certain that I completely understand your question.
From what I understand, this would be very simple to do with a short
perl script.
If this is indeed what you'd like to do, mail me off-list and I will
help you with it.
Thanks,
Mike
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