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[webpac] / back2html.pm
1 #
2 # reformat html inside xml back to html (basically, support for tables)
3 #
4 # filed #-# field ###
5 # ...
6
7 sub back2html {
8         my $html = shift;
9
10         $html =~ s/</&lt;/g;
11         $html =~ s/>/&gt;/g;
12         my $out;
13         foreach $line (split(/\s*###\s*/,$html)) {
14                 $out .= "<tr><td valign=\"top\">";
15                 my @items = split(/\s*#-#\s*/,$line);
16                 # convert spaces in left field to non-breaking spaces
17                 $items[0] =~ s#\s+#&nbsp;#g;
18                 # try to make link on right field
19                 if ($items[1] =~ m#(http://[\S]+)\s*.*?#i) {
20                         # chop URLS longer than 60 characters
21                         my $url = substr($1,0,60);
22                         $url .= "..." if (length($1) > 60);
23                         $items[1] =~ s#(.*)\b(http://[\S]+)(\b?.*)#$1<a href=\"$2\">$url</a>$3#g;
24                 }
25                 $out .= join("</td><td>",@items);
26                 $out .= "</td></tr>\n";
27         }
28         $out =~ s/&lt;br\/*&gt;/<br\/>/g;
29         return $out;
30 }
31
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