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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed scripts are not playing nicely! Post 302433359 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 09:59:02 AM
Old 06-29-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by naphelge
The end result should look like:
HTML Code:
<tr><td><b>SLY<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
Third, or fourth, or fift borough, I'll answer him
by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come,
<tr><td>15<\/td><\/tr>
and kindly.
<tr><td><b>[Falls asleep.]<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
<tr><td><b>[Wind horns. Enter a LORD from hunting, with his TRAIN.]<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
<tr><td><b>LORD<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:
Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd;
And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good
<tr><td>20<\/td><\/tr>
At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
<tr><td><b>FIRST_HUNTSMAN<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;
He cried upon it at the merest loss
And twice today pick'd out the dullest scent:
<tr><td><a href="25Top" name="25"><u><b>25<\/b><\/u><\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
<tr><td><b>LORD<\/b><\/td><\/tr>
Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,

That's not anything close to valid HTML, even after removing the extra backslashes. (http://cfajohnson.com/testing/bard.html)

Try posting something that looks reasonably like the rendered HTML you want rather than the source code. I'm sure it can be done with no more than half a dozen lines in awk.

Last edited by cfajohnson; 06-29-2010 at 11:04 AM..
 

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