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From: ehood@convex.com (Earl Hood)
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Subject: Talk & Perl program for processing ASCII to HTML
Date: 9 Aug 1994 17:13:38 -0500
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Just a side note:

If you put ASCII art on the Web in an HTML file, make sure to translate
"special" characters to entity references so Web browsers don't choke.

Here's a simple Perl program that will procees an ASCII file from
standard input and output the HTML version of the file to
standard output for inclusion into an HTML document:

    #! /usr/bin/perl
    while (<>) {
	s/\&/\&amp;/g;
	s/</\&lt;/g;
	s/>/\&gt;/g;
	print STDOUT;
    }
    # end


	--ewh