easy way to wrap a lot of links for html output?

the_rhino · 10-16-2004, 09:37 AM

I have about 100 http://www... type strings that don't have the <a herf... tags around them (unformatted URLS for HTML output). Does any one know where I can get a script or something that would wrap all these unformatted URLs with the HTML <a herf... tags so I don't have to do them one at a time?

Thanks for any help,

The Rhino

itsme86 · 10-16-2004, 10:08 AM

Do you have all these strings in a text file or are they interspersed with other text or what?

the_rhino · 10-16-2004, 11:12 AM

A nice clean list of URLs

itsme86 · 10-16-2004, 12:03 PM

I'm not good with shell scripts. But here's a quick C program you can use as a tool maybe:

Code:

itsme@itsme:~/C$ cat wrap.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
  char buf[4096];

  while(fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin))
  {
    buf[strlen(buf)-1] = '\0';

    printf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>\n", buf, buf);
  }

  return 0;
}
itsme@itsme:~/C$ make wrap
cc     wrap.c   -o wrap
itsme@itsme:~/C$ cat temp.txt
http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.linuxquestions.org
itsme@itsme:~/C$ ./wrap < temp.txt
<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">http://www.yahoo.com</a>
<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org">http://www.linuxquestions.org</a>
itsme@itsme:~/C$

the_rhino · 10-16-2004, 02:53 PM

Thanks for the code. This may very well do what I want but I have no idea how to use it.

twantrd · 10-17-2004, 01:24 PM

Look at his shell prompts "itsme@itsme:~/C$". He's showing you how to use the program...

-twantrd

randyding · 10-18-2004, 12:59 AM

sed 's/$.*$/<a href="\1">\1<\/a>/' url_list.txt > some.html

zchoyt · 10-20-2004, 12:40 PM

The c example works fine for me.