italics and underlined text on PERL

randomx · 03-13-2004, 11:32 PM

I just want to write a simple reference/book keeper, like if entering author, year, publisher, and so on...then do a search, then the programs spits the ALL items found in APA style.

Does anyone have a sample code to write/search/retrieve to a flat text file with some of the records in italics and some other records underlined?

I'm sure you can do it in PERL but I don't know how to do the italics/underline part of the field content.

I'm looking for a quick and dirty solution. Any ideas are welcome. I'll post the final code.

Thanks,
Randomx

j-ray · 03-14-2004, 04:23 AM

maybe u need sth like RTF:Generator from cpan? the ususal print functions in perl don't support that as far as i know. but maybe someone else knows better ;-)

randomx · 03-15-2004, 12:01 AM

I gave it a shot in Java....it works great.

It would be nice to know the trick in PERL though. Oh well.

randomx

Code:


import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
  
 
public class Foo
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("myFile.html"));
out.println("<u><i>my output</i></u>");
out.flush();
out.close();
}
}

randomx