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use 5.006_001;
use strict;
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=head1 NAME
txt2html - convert plain text file to HTML.
=head1 VERSION
This describes version B<2.51> of txt2html.
=cut
our $VERSION = '2.51';
=head1 SYNOPSIS
txt2html --help | --manpage
txt2html [ --append_file I<filename> ] [ --append_head I<filename> ]
[ --body_deco I<string> ] [ --bold_delimiter I<string> ]
[ --bullets I<string> ] [ --bullets_ordered I<string> ] [ --caps_tag I<tag> ]
{ --custom_heading_regexp I<regexp> } [ --debug ] [ --demoronize ]
[ --default_link_dict I<filename> ] [ --dict_debug I<n> ]
[ --doctype I<doctype> ] [ --eight_bit_clean ] [ --escape_HTML_chars ]
[ --explicit_headings ] [ --extract ] [ --hrule_min I<n> ]
[ --indent_width I<n> ] [ --indent_par_break ]
{ --infile I<filename> | --instring I<string> }
[ --italic_delimiter I<string> ] { --links_dictionaries I<filename> }
[ --link_only ] [ --lower_case_tags ] [ --mailmode ]
[ --make_anchors ] [ --make_tables ] [ --min_caps_length I<n> ]
[ --outfile I<filename> ] [ --par_indent I<n> ]
[ --preformat_trigger_lines I<n> ] [ --endpreformat_trigger_lines I<n> ]
[ --preformat_start_marker I<regexp> ] [ --preformat_end_marker I<regexp> ]
[ --preformat_whitespace_min I<n> ] [ --prepend_file I<filename> ]
[ --preserve_indent ] [ --short_line_length I<n> ]
[ --style_url I<stylesheet_url> ] [ --tab_width I<n> ]
[ --table_type I<type>=0/1 ] [ --title I<title> ] [ --titlefirst ]
[ --underline_delimiter I<string> ] [ --underline_length_tolerance I<n> ]
[ --underline_offset_tolerance I<n> ] [ --unhyphenation ]
[ --use_mosaic_header ] [ --use_preformat_marker ] [ --xhtml ] [file ...]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
txt2html converts plain text files to HTML.
It supports headings, tables, lists, simple character markup, and
hyperlinking, and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of the
apparent structure of the source document (mostly whitespace and
typographic layout), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly
using HTML. The purpose for this tool is to provide an easier way of
converting existing text documents to HTML format.
One can use txt2html as a filter, outputting the result to STDOUT,
or to a given file.
One can define options in a config file as well as on the command-line.
=head1 OPTIONS
Option names can be abbreviated to the shortest unique name for that option.
Options can start with "--" or "-". Boolean options can be negated
by preceding them with "no"; options with hash or array values
can be added to by giving the option again for each value.
See L<Getopt::Long> for more information.
If the Getopt::ArgvFile module is installed, then groups of options can
be read from a file or files designated by the @ character preceding
the name. For example:
txt2html @poem_options --outfile poem_glory.html poem_glory.txt
See L<Options Files> for more information.
Help options:
=over
=item --help
Display short help and exit.
=item --manpage
Display full documentation and exit.
This requires perldoc to be installed.
=back
General options:
=over
=item --append_file I<filename> | --append I<filename> | --append_body I<filename>
If you want something appended by default, put the filename here.
The appended text will not be processed at all, so make sure it's
plain text or decent HTML. i.e. do not have things like:
Mary Andersen E<lt>kitty@example.comE<gt>
but instead, have:
Mary Andersen <kitty@example.com>
(default: nothing)
=item --append_head I<filename> | -ah I<filename>
If you want something appended to the head by default, put the filename here.
The appended text will not be processed at all, so make sure it's
plain text or decent HTML. i.e. do not have things like:
Mary Andersen E<lt>kitty@example.comE<gt>
but instead, have:
Mary Andersen <kitty@example.com>
(default: nothing)
=item --body_deco I<string>
Body decoration string: a string to be added to the BODY tag so that
one can set attributes to the BODY (such as class, style, bgcolor etc)
For example, "class='withimage'".
=item --bold_delimiter I<string>
This defines what character (or string) is taken to be the delimiter of
text which is to be interpreted as bold (that is, to be given a STRONG
tag). If this is empty, then no bolding of text will be done.
(default: #)
=item --bullets I<string>
This defines what single characters are taken to be "bullet" characters
for unordered lists. Note that because this is used as a character
class, if you use '-' it must come first.
(default:-=o*\267)
=item --bullets_ordered I<string>
This defines what single characters are taken to be "bullet" placeholder
characters for ordered lists. Ordered lists are normally marked by
a number or letter followed by '.' or ')' or ']' or ':'. If an ordered
bullet is used, then it simply indicates that this is an ordered list,
without giving explicit numbers.
Note that because this is used as a character class, if you use '-' it
must come first.
(default:nothing)
=item --caps_tag I<tag> | --capstag I<tag> | -ct I<tag>
Tag to put around all-caps lines
(default: STRONG)
If an empty tag is given, then no tag will be put around all-caps lines.
=item --custom_heading_regexp I<regexp> | --heading I<regexp> | -H I<regexp>
Add a regexp for headings. Header levels are assigned by regexp
in order seen When a line matches a custom header regexp, it is tagged as
a header. If it's the first time that particular regexp has matched,
the next available header level is associated with it and applied to
the line. Any later matches of that regexp will use the same header level.
Therefore, if you want to match numbered header lines, you could use
something like this:
-H '^ *\d+\. \w+' -H '^ *\d+\.\d+\. \w+' -H '^ *\d+\.\d+\.\d+\. \w+'
Then lines like
" 1. Examples "
" 1.1. Things"
and " 4.2.5. Cold Fusion"
Would be marked as H1, H2, and H3 (assuming they were found in that
order, and that no other header styles were encountered).
If you prefer that the first one specified always be H1, the second
always be H2, the third H3, etc, then use the -EH/--explicit-headings
option.
This is a multi-valued option.
(default: none)
=item --debug
Enable copious script debugging output (don't bother, this is for the
developer)
=item --default_link_dict I<filename>
The name of the default "user" link dictionary.
(default: "$ENV{'HOME'}/.txt2html.dict")
=item --demoronize
Convert Microsoft-generated character codes that are non-ISO codes into
something more reasonable.
(default:true)
=item --dict_debug I<n> | -db I<n>
Debug mode for link dictionaries Bitwise-Or what you want to see:
1: The parsing of the dictionary
2: The code that will make the links
4: When each rule matches something
8: When each tag is created
(default: 0)
=item --doctype I<doctype> | --dt I<doctype>
This gets put in the DOCTYPE field at the top of the document, unless it's
empty.
Default :
'-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'
If --xhtml is true, the contents of this is ignored, unless it's
empty, in which case no DOCTYPE declaration is output.
=item --eight_bit_clean | -8
If false, convert Latin-1 characters to HTML entities.
If true, this conversion is disabled.
(default: false)
=item --escape_HTML_chars | --escapechars | -ec
turn & E<lt> E<gt> into & > <
(default: true)
=item --explicit_headings | -EH
Don't try to find any headings except the ones specified in the
--custom_heading_regexp option.
Also, the custom headings will not be assigned levels in the order they
are encountered in the document, but in the order they are specified on
the command line.
(default: false)
=item --extract
Extract Mode; don't put HTML headers or footers on the result, just
the plain HTML (thus making the result suitable for inserting into
another document (or as part of the output of a CGI script).
(default: false)
=item --hrule_min I<n> | --hrule I<n> | -r I<n>
Min number of ---s for an HRule.
(default: 4)
=item --indent_width I<n> | --indent I<n> | -iw I<n>
Indents this many spaces for each level of a list.
(default: 2)
=item --indent_par_break | -ipb
Treat paragraphs marked solely by indents as breaks with indents.
That is, instead of taking a three-space indent as a new paragraph,
put in a <BR> and three non-breaking spaces instead.
(see also --preserve_indent)
(default: false)
=item --infile I<filename>
The name of the input file.
This is a cumulative list argument. If you want to process more than
one file, just add another --infile I<file> to the list of arguments.
Or else just add the filename without the option, after all the options.
Note that the special file name of '-' means standard input.
(default:-)
=item --instring I<string>
An input string. One can either have input files or input strings,
not both. If you want to process more than one string, just add
another --instring I<string> to the list of arguments.
=item --italic_delimiter I<string>
This defines what character (or string) is taken to be the delimiter of
text which is to be interpreted as italic (that is, to be given a EM
tag). If this is empty, no italicising of text will be done.
(default: *)
=item --links_dictionaries I<filename> | --link I<filename> | -l I<filename>
File to use as a link-dictionary. There can be more than one of these.
These are in addition to the System Link Dictionary and the User Link
Dictionary.
=item --link_only | --linkonly | -LO
Do no escaping or marking up at all, except for processing the links
dictionary file and applying it. This is useful if you want to use
the linking feature on an HTML document. If the HTML is a
complete document (includes HTML,HEAD,BODY tags, etc) then you'll
probably want to use the --extract option also.
(default: false)
=item --lower_case_tags
Force all the tags to be in lower-case.
=item --mailmode | -m
Deal with mail headers & quoted text. The mail header paragraph is
given the class 'mail_header', and mail-quoted text is given the class
'quote_mail'.
(default: false)
=item --make_anchors | --anchors
Should we try to make anchors in headings?
(default: true)
=item --make_links
Should we try to build links? If this is false, then the links
dictionaries are not consulted and only structural text-to-HTML
conversion is done.
(default: true)
=item --make_tables | --tables
Should we try to build tables? If true, spots tables and marks them up
appropriately. See L<Input File Format> for information on how tables
should be formatted.
This overrides the detection of lists; if something looks like a table,
it is taken as a table, and list-checking is not done for that
paragraph.
(default: false)
=item --min_caps_length I<n> | --caps I<n> | -c I<n>
min sequential CAPS for an all-caps line
(default: 3)
=item --outfile I<filename>
The name of the output file. If it is "-" then the output goes
to Standard Output.
(default: - )
=item --par_indent I<n>
Minumum number of spaces indented in first lines of paragraphs.
Only used when there's no blank line
preceding the new paragraph.
(default: 2)
=item --preformat_trigger_lines I<n> | --prebegin I<n> | -pb I<n>
How many lines of preformatted-looking text are needed to switch to <PRE>
<= 0 : Preformat entire document
1 : one line triggers
>= 2 : two lines trigger
(default: 2)
=item --endpreformat_trigger_lines I<n> | --preend I<n> | -pe I<n>
How many lines of unpreformatted-looking text are needed to switch from <PRE>
<= 0 : Never preformat within document
1 : one line triggers
>= 2 : two lines trigger
(default: 2)
NOTE for --prebegin and --preend:
A zero takes precedence. If one is zero, the other is ignored.
If both are zero, entire document is preformatted.
=item --preformat_start_marker I<regexp>
What flags the start of a preformatted section if --use_preformat_marker
is true.
(default: "^(:?(:?<)|<)PRE(:?(:?>)|>)\$")
=item --preformat_end_marker I<regexp>
What flags the end of a preformatted section if --use_preformat_marker
is true.
(default: "^(:?(:?<)|<)/PRE(:?(:?>)|>)\$")
=item --preformat_whitespace_min I<n> | --prewhite I<n> | -p I<n>
Minimum number of consecutive whitespace characters to trigger
normal preformatting.
NOTE: Tabs are expanded to spaces before this check is made.
That means if B<tab_width> is 8 and this is 5, then one tab may be
expanded to 8 spaces, which is enough to trigger preformatting.
(default: 5)
=item --prepend_file I<filename> | --prepend_body I<filename> | --pp I<filename>
If you want something prepended to the processed body text, put the
filename here. The prepended text will not be processed at all, so make
sure it's plain text or decent HTML.
(default: nothing)
=item --preserve_indent | -pi
Preserve the first-line indentation of paragraphs marked with indents
by replacing the spaces of the first line with non-breaking spaces.
(default: false)
=item --short_line_length I<n> | --shortline I<n> | -s I<n>
Lines this short (or shorter) must be intentionally broken and are kept
that short.
(default: 40)
=item --style_url I<stylesheet_url>
This gives the URL of a stylesheet; a LINK tag will be added to the
output.
=item --tab_width I<n> | --tabwidth I<n> | -tw I<n>
How many spaces equal a tab?
(default: 8)
=item --table_type I<type>=0/1
--table_type ALIGN=1 --table_type BORDER=0
This determines which types of tables will be recognised when "make_tables"
is true. The possible types are ALIGN, PGSQL, BORDER and DELIM.
(default: all types are true)
=item --title I<title> | -t I<title>
You can specify a title. Otherwise it will use a blank one.
(default: nothing)
=item --titlefirst | -tf
Use the first non-blank line as the title.
=item --underline_delimiter I<string>
This defines what character (or string) is taken to be the delimiter of
text which is to be interpreted as underlined (that is, to be given a <U>
tag). If this is empty, then no underlining of text will be done.
This is NOT the same as the following "underline" options, which are
about underlining of "header" sections.
(default: _)
=item --underline_length_tolerance I<n> | --ulength I<n> | -ul I<n>
How much longer or shorter can header underlines be and still be header
underlines?
(default: 1)
=item --underline_offset_tolerance I<n> | --uoffset I<n> | -uo I<n>
How far offset can header underlines be and still be header underlines?
(default: 1)
=item --unhyphenation | --unhypnenate | -u
Enables unhyphenation of text.
(default: true)
=item --use_mosaic_header | --mosaic | -mh
Use this option if you want to force the heading styles to match what Mosaic
outputs. (Underlined with "***"s is H1,
with "==="s is H2, with "+++" is H3, with "---" is H4, with "~~~" is H5
and with "..." is H6)
This was the behavior of txt2html up to version 1.10.
(default: false)
=item --use_preformat_marker | --preformat_marker | -pm
Turn on preformatting when encountering "<PRE>" on a line by itself, and turn
it off when there's a line containing only "</PRE>".
When such preformatted text is detected, the PRE tag will be given the
class 'quote_explicit'.
(default: off)
=item --xhtml
Try to make the output conform to the XHTML standard, including
closing all open tags and marking empty tags correctly. This
turns on --lower_case_tags and overrides the --doctype option.
Note that if you add a header or a footer file, it is up to you
to make it conform; the header/footer isn't touched by this.
Likewise, if you make link-dictionary entries that break XHTML,
then this won't fix them, except to the degree of putting all tags
into lower-case.
(default: true)
=back
=head1 FILE FORMATS
=head2 Options Files
Options can be given in files as well as on the command-line by
flagging an option file with @I<filename> in the command-line.
Also, the files ~/.txt2htmlrc and ./.txt2htmlrc are checked for options.
The format is as follows:
Lines starting with # are comments. Lines enclosed in PoD markers are
also comments. Blank lines are ignored. The options themselves
should be given the way they would be on the command line, that is,
the option name (I<including> the --) followed by its value (if any).
For example:
# set link dictionaries
--default_link_dict /home/kat/.TextToHTML.dict
# set options for poetry
--titlefirst
--short_line_length 60
See L<Getopt::ArgvFile> for more information.
=head2 Link Dictionary
A link dictionary file contains patterns to match, and what to convert
them to. It is called a "link" dictionary because it was intended to be
something which defined what a href link was, but it can be used for
more than that. However, if you wish to define your own links, it is
strongly advised to read up on regular expressions (regexes) because
this relies heavily on them.
The file consists of comments (which are lines starting with #)
and blank lines, and link entries.
Each entry consists of a regular expression, a -> separator (with
optional flags), and a link "result".
In the simplest case, with no flags, the regular expression
defines the pattern to look for, and the result says what part
of the regular expression is the actual link, and the link which
is generated has the href as the link, and the whole matched pattern
as the visible part of the link. The first character of the regular
expression is taken to be the separator for the regex, so one
could either use the traditional / separator, or something else
such as | (which can be helpful with URLs which are full of / characters).
So, for example, an ftp URL might be defined as:
|ftp:[\w/\.:+\-]+| -> $&
This takes the whole pattern as the href, and the resultant link
has the same thing in the href as in the contents of the anchor.
But sometimes the href isn't the whole pattern.
/<URL:\s*(\S+?)\s*>/ --> $1
With the above regex, a () grouping marks the first subexpression,
which is represented as $1 (rather than $& the whole expression).
This entry matches a URL which was marked explicity as a URL
with the pattern <URL:foo> (note the < is shown as the
entity, not the actual character. This is because by the
time the links dictionary is checked, all such things have
already been converted to their HTML entity forms)
This would give us a link in the form
<A HREF="foo"><URL:foo></A>
B<The h flag>
However, if we want more control over the way the link is constructed,
we can construct it ourself. If one gives the h flag, then the
"result" part of the entry is taken not to contain the href part of
the link, but the whole link.
For example, the entry:
/<URL:\s*(\S+?)\s*>/ -h-> <A HREF="$1">$1</A>
will take <URL:foo> and give us <A HREF="foo">foo</A>
However, this is a very powerful mechanism, because it
can be used to construct custom tags which aren't links at all.
For example, to flag *italicised words* the following
entry will surround the words with EM tags.
/\B\*([a-z][a-z -]*[a-z])\*\B/ -hi-> <EM>$1</EM>
B<The i flag>
This turns on ignore case in the pattern matching.
B<The e flag>
This turns on execute in the pattern substitution. This really
only makes sense if h is turned on too. In that case, the "result"
part of the entry is taken as perl code to be executed, and the
result of that code is what replaces the pattern.
B<The o flag>
This marks the entry as a once-only link. This will convert the
first instance of a matching pattern, and ignore any others
further on.
For example, the following pattern will take the first mention
of HTML::TextToHTML and convert it to a link to the module's home page.
"HTML::TextToHTML" -io-> http://www.example.com/tools/text_to_html/
=head2 Input File Format
For the most part, this module tries to use intuitive conventions for
determining the structure of the text input. Unordered lists are
marked by bullets; ordered lists are marked by numbers or letters;
in either case, an increase in indentation marks a sub-list contained
in the outer list.
Headers (apart from custom headers) are distinguished by "underlines"
underneath them; headers in all-capitals are distinguished from
those in mixed case. All headers, both normal and custom headers,
are expected to start at the first line in a "paragraph".
Tables require a more rigid convention. A table must be marked as a
separate paragraph, that is, it must be surrounded by blank lines.
Tables come in different types. For a table to be parsed, its
--table_type option must be on, and the --make_tables option must be true.
B<ALIGN Table Type>
Columns must be separated by two or more spaces (this prevents
accidental incorrect recognition of a paragraph where interword spaces
happen to line up). If there are two or more rows in a paragraph and
all rows share the same set of (two or more) columns, the paragraph is
assumed to be a table. For example
-e File exists.
-z File has zero size.
-s File has nonzero size (returns size).
becomes
<table>
<tr><td>-e</td><td>File exists.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-z</td><td>File has zero size.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-s</td><td>File has nonzero size (returns size).</td></tr>
</table>
This guesses for each column whether it is intended to be left,
centre or right aligned.
B<BORDER Table Type>
This table type has nice borders around it, and will be rendered
with a border, like so:
+---------+---------+
| Column1 | Column2 |
+---------+---------+
| val1 | val2 |
| val3 | val3 |
+---------+---------+
The above becomes
<table border="1">
<thead><tr><th>Column1</th><th>Column2</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>val1</td><td>val2</td></tr>
<tr><td>val3</td><td>val3</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
It can also have an optional caption at the start.
My Caption
+---------+---------+
| Column1 | Column2 |
+---------+---------+
| val1 | val2 |
| val3 | val3 |
+---------+---------+
B<PGSQL Table Type>
This format of table is what one gets from the output of a Postgresql
query.
Column1 | Column2
---------+---------
val1 | val2
val3 | val3
(2 rows)
This can also have an optional caption at the start.
This table is also rendered with a border and table-headers like
the BORDER type.
B<DELIM Table Type>
This table type is delimited by non-alphanumeric characters, and has to
have at least two rows and two columns before it's recognised as a table.
This one is delimited by the '| character:
| val1 | val2 |
| val3 | val3 |
But one can use almost any suitable character such as : # $ % + and so on.
This is clever enough to figure out what you are using as the delimiter
if you have your data set up like a table. Note that the line has to
both begin and end with the delimiter, as well as using it to separate
values.
This can also have an optional caption at the start.
=head1 EXAMPLES
B<Convert one file to HTML>
txt2html --infile thing.txt --outfile thing.html
This will create a HTML file called C<thing.html> from the plain
text file C<thing.txt>.
=head1 BUGS
Tell me about them.
=head1 PREREQUISITES
Pod::Usage
HTML::TextToHTML
Getopt::Long
Getopt::ArgvFile
File::Basename
YAML::Syck
perldoc
=head1 SCRIPT CATEGORIES
Web
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
=over
=item HOME
txt2html looks in the HOME directory for config files.
=back
=head1 FILES
These files are only read if the Getopt::ArgvFile module is
available on the system.
=over
=item C<~/.txt2htmlrc>
User configuration file.
=item C<.txt2htmlrc>
Configuration file in the current working directory; overrides
options in C<~/.txt2htmlrc> and is overridden by command-line options.
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
perl(1)
htmltoc(1)
HTML::TextToHTML
Getopt::Long
Getopt::ArgvFile
=head1 AUTHOR
Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT)
perlkat AT katspace dot com
http//www.katspace.com/
based on txt2html by Seth Golub
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Original txt2html script copyright (c) 1994-2000 Seth Golub seth AT aigeek.com
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Kathryn Andersen
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut
#################################################################
# Includes
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Basename;
use HTML::TextToHTML;
#################################################################
# Subroutines
sub init_data ($) {
my $data_ref = shift;
my %args = ();
$args{manpage} = 0;
$args{debug} = 0;
$args{version} = 0;
$args{quiet} = 0;
$args{help} = 0;
$args{infile} = [];
$args{instring} = [];
$data_ref->{args} = \%args;
}
sub process_args ($) {
my $data_ref = shift;
my $args_ref = $data_ref->{args};
my $ok = 1;
# check the rc file if we can
if (eval("require Getopt::ArgvFile")) {
no strict;
my $bn = basename($0, '');
my $rc_name = ".${bn}rc";
Getopt::ArgvFile::argvFile(
startupFilename=>$rc_name,
home=>1,
current=>1);
}
$ok = GetOptions($args_ref,
'help',
'manpage|man_help',
'debug',
'version',
'verbose!',
'append_file|append_body|ab=s',
'append_head|ah=s',
'body_deco=s',
'bold_delimiter=s',
'bullets=s',
'bullets_ordered=s',
'caps_tag|capstag|ct=s',
'custom_heading_regexp|heading|H=s@',
'default_link_dict|dict=s',
'demoronize!',
'dict_debug|db=n',
'doctype|dt=s',
'eight_bit_clean|8!',
'escape_HTML_chars|escapechars|ec!',
'explicit_headings|EH!',
'extract!',
'hrule_min|r=n',
'indent_width|iw=n',
'indent_par_break|ipb!',
'infile=s@',
'instring=s@',
'italic_delimiter=s',
'links_dictionaries|link|l=s@',
'link_only|linkonly|LO!',
'lower_case_tags|lc_tags|LC!',
'mailmode|m!',
'make_anchors|anchors!',
'make_links!',
'make_tables|tables!',
'min_caps_length|caps|c=n',
'outfile|out|o=s',
'par_indent=n',
'preformat_trigger_lines|prebegin|pb=n',
'endpreformat_trigger_lines|preend|pe=n',
'preformat_start_marker=s',
'preformat_end_marker=s',
'preformat_whitespace_min|prewhite|p=n',
'prepend_file|prepend_body|pp=s',
'preserve_indent|pi!',
'short_line_length|shortline|s=n',
'style_url=s',
'tab_width|tabwidth|tw=n',
'table_type=n%',
'title|t=s',
'titlefirst|tf!',
'underline_delimiter=s',
'underline_length_tolerance|ulength|ul=n',
'underline_offset_tolerance|uoffset|uo=n',
'unhyphenation|unhyphenate!',
'utf8',
'use_mosaic_header|mosaic|mh!',
'use_preformat_marker|preformat_marker|pm!',
'xhtml!',
);
if (!$ok)
{
pod2usage({ -message => "$0",
-exitval => 1,
-verbose => 0,
});
}
if ($args_ref->{'version'})
{
print STDERR "$0 version: $VERSION\n";
exit 0;
}
if ($args_ref->{'manpage'})
{
pod2usage({ -message => "$0 version $VERSION",
-exitval => 0,
-verbose => 2,
});
}
if ($args_ref->{'help'})
{
pod2usage({ -message => "$0 version $VERSION",
-exitval => 0,
-verbose => 1,
});
}
# transfer script-only things to the data-ref
undef $args_ref->{help};
undef $args_ref->{manpage};
undef $args_ref->{version};
# make the object
my $doc = HTML::TextToHTML->new(%{$args_ref});
$data_ref->{doc} = $doc;
}
#################################################################
# Main
MAIN: {
my %data = ();
my $result = 0;
init_data(\%data);
process_args(\%data);
# now the remainder must be input-files
# Push the infiles onto the infile array,
# because there might already have been infiles added with --infile.
foreach my $df (@ARGV)
{
if ($data{doc}->{debug}) {
print STDERR "--infile $df\n";
}
push @{$data{doc}->{infile}}, $df;
}
# if we have no infile, and no instring
# assume stdin, and mark that with '-'
if (!@{$data{doc}->{infile}} and !@{$data{doc}->{instring}})
{
if ($data{doc}->{debug}) {
print STDERR "using STDIN\n";
}
push @{$data{doc}->{infile}}, '-';
}
$data{doc}->txt2html();
}
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