List to HTML © Steve Turner 2003

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This program was written using BlitzPlus Basic¹

Given a list in an ascii text file (*.txt) this programme will convert it to an html file in the form of a table.

• Acceptable list format is;
  • [col 1 content][tab]......[col n content]return
  • col x content = any ascii string
  • tab = chr$(9)
  • acceptable lists include;
    • [text][tab][text][tab][text]return
    • [tab][tab][text]return
    • [text][tab][tab][text]return
    • return
    • [text]return

The number of columns given need not match the actual number of columns in the text file. Giving too large a number of columns will result in the last ones being empty. Too few and the later text will be ignored. A tab is taken as a column break (With or without text between it).

It is IMPORTANT to note that if you index the file you *MUST* have pre-sorted the file into alphabetic order and not have numbers in the first column of the list. Failure to do this will result in garbage in the output file.

STEVE TURNER
e-mail: stevet2@ntlworld.com

¹ Blitz Basic is a cross between a standard basic language and 'C'.
I strongly recommend anyone with programming experience to have a look at it.
BlitzPlus is copyright 2003 by Blitz Research Ltd and was developed by Mark Sibly.

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