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Text to HTML (Tcl recipe) by Jeff Hobbs
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65428/)

Scan the files in the current directory and wrap them into html/body tags so that netscape will display them as HTML and not as text.

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#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh
# -*- tcl -*-
# Scan the files in the current directory and wrap them into html/body
# tags so that netscape will display them as HTML and not as text.

foreach f [glob *] {
    if {[file extension $f] == ".html"} {continue}
    if {[file isdirectory $f]} {continue}
    set data [read [set fh [open $f r]]]
    close $fh
    set    fh [open html/$f.html w]
    puts  $fh "<html><body>\n$data</body></html>"
    close $fh
}
exit
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Marty Backe 22 years, 8 months ago  # | flag

Use HTML character entities. Wrapping arbitrary text files such that they can be displayed as html requires all '<', '>', '&', and '"' characters be converted to their HTML character entities: &lt; &gt; &amp; &quot;

This program accomplishes the conversion.

Usage: txt2html foo.bar > output.html

#!/usr/local/bin/tclsh

proc txt2html { file } {

    set fileH [open $file r]

    while { 1 } {
        set inputLine [gets $fileH]
        if {[eof $fileH]} {
            break
        }
        set outputLine [string map {&lt; &amp;lt; &gt; &amp;gt; &amp; &amp;amp; \&quot; &amp;quot;} $inputLine]
        puts $outputLine
    }
}

txt2html [lindex $argv 0]
Created by Jeff Hobbs on Thu, 21 Jun 2001 (MIT)
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