Text-to-HTML Converter Script
Let's finish up with a slightly more useful script: webbuild.pl takes a simple text file as an argument, prompts you for some basic values, and then spits out an HTML version of your text file. It's not a very sophisticated HTML generator—it won't handle embedded boldface or other formatting, it doesn't handle links or images; really, it does little other than stick paragraph tags in the right place, let you specify the foreground and background colors, and give you a simple heading and a link to your e-mail address. But it does give you a basic HTML template to work from.
How It Works
In addition to simply converting text input to HTML, the webbuild.pl script prompts you for several other values, including
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