Thread: Need to auto-format a text file to HTML

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    Unhappy Need to auto-format a text file to HTML

    Grrrrr! I have a long list of quotations in a text file; the file contains no paragraphs, and each quote spans very far horizontally. I would like to add a

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    <p>
    at the start of each line, and a

    </p>
    at each end-of-line character. How do I achieve this in Notepad++? EOL characters show up as CRLF (clue?). Please help me auto-format this file, and avoid wrist injury.

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    Do this.
    Last edited by whiteflags; 04-06-2011 at 06:18 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by whiteflags View Post
    Do this.
    Thank you, that's exactly what I was after! On a related issue, is there a way to edit all my HTML pages at once? In short, I'm after something that has the power of SED and GAWK, only that it has to work with Windoze 7. Yes I know, it sounds very 90s. Ease of use would be nice. Anyone???

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    I don't know if there is an easy-to-use utility. For just such a purpose I wrote an interpreter that can do searches, substitutions on multiple files. I haven't fired it up in years so I don't know if it will still work now in Windows 7. If it's a one-time thing perhaps you can send me your files and I can play with it.

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