HTML Formatting Your Perl · Aug 21, 02:07 AM by Dylan Doxey
Ever wonder how to make your Perl code presentable on a website? Use perltidy.
perltidy -html rand_sort.pl
Then cut & paste the resulting HTML into your blog and delight your readers.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @numbers = sort { -1 + int rand 3 } 1 .. 1000; for my $x (@numbers) { print "$x\n"; }
However, in my opinion the best option for a blog snippet is vim. While you've got your Perl (or whatever) file open in vim use the :TOhtml command. That will open another buffer with HTML in it. The resulting HTML page is:
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2
3 use strict;
3 use warnings;
4
5 my @numbers = sort { -1 + int rand 3 } 1 .. 1000;
6
7 for my $x (@numbers) {
8
9 print "$x\n";
10 }
11
For more information about using perltidy see http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/perltidy.html#html_options. For the record, my example of perltidy HTML output is pretty lame. As linked from the perltidy home page (http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/) check out this example of perltidy HTML output: http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/Conf.pm.html.
For more details about using :TOhtml user command in vim see http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#:TOhtml
Now I won't forget how to do that again!
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