11-18-2008
ASCII Text formatting
Hi All,
I have a requirement to create a formatted text.
That is., I have a plain text composed to send it through an Email using mailx.
I need to change the formatting of the text like BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERINED, COLOURED, INDENT etc.,
First of all, is it possible in UNIX?
If yes, please let me know how to do that.
I may be crazy giving you the example, we have seen some of the text formatting available while you are sending scraps to your friends in orkut form.
I'm expecting something like that. May be its not soo easy to achieve in UNIX.
Please let me know is it possible in UNIX shell scripting.
FYI. I'm using KSH.
Regards
Mohan Kumar CS
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pod::parselink
Pod::ParseLink(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Pod::ParseLink(3pm)
NAME
Pod::ParseLink - Parse an L<> formatting code in POD text
SYNOPSIS
use Pod::ParseLink;
my ($text, $inferred, $name, $section, $type) = parselink ($link);
DESCRIPTION
This module only provides a single function, parselink(), which takes the text of an L<> formatting code and parses it. It returns the
anchor text for the link (if any was given), the anchor text possibly inferred from the name and section, the name or URL, the section if
any, and the type of link. The type will be one of 'url', 'pod', or 'man', indicating a URL, a link to a POD page, or a link to a Unix
manual page.
Parsing is implemented per perlpodspec. For backward compatibility, links where there is no section and name contains spaces, or links
where the entirety of the link (except for the anchor text if given) is enclosed in double-quotes are interpreted as links to a section
(L</section>).
The inferred anchor text is implemented per perlpodspec:
L<name> => L<name|name>
L</section> => L<"section"|/section>
L<name/section> => L<"section" in name|name/section>
The name may contain embedded E<> and Z<> formatting codes, and the section, anchor text, and inferred anchor text may contain any format-
ting codes. Any double quotes around the section are removed as part of the parsing, as is any leading or trailing whitespace.
If the text of the L<> escape is entirely enclosed in double quotes, it's interpreted as a link to a section for backwards compatibility.
No attempt is made to resolve formatting codes. This must be done after calling parselink (since E<> formatting codes can be used to
escape characters that would otherwise be significant to the parser and resolving them before parsing would result in an incorrect parse of
a formatting code like:
L<verticalE<verbar>barE<sol>slash>
which should be interpreted as a link to the "vertical|bar/slash" POD page and not as a link to the "slash" section of the "bar" POD page
with an anchor text of "vertical". Note that not only the anchor text will need to have formatting codes expanded, but so will the target
of the link (to deal with E<> and Z<> formatting codes), and special handling of the section may be necessary depending on whether the
translator wants to consider markup in sections to be significant when resolving links. See perlpodspec for more information.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Parser
The current version of this module is always available from its web site at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>.
AUTHOR
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.0 2002-06-01 Pod::ParseLink(3pm)