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Hi ,

I have a few lines of text in a flat file which i need to convert something like below.

Input
Bari Durrës Bari
Brindisi Vlore

Output
<a title="Bari Durrës Bari" href="http://www.test.fr/bari-durres-bari/">Bari Durrës Bari</a>
<a title="Brindisi Vlore" href="http://www.test.fr/Brindisi-Vlore/">Brindisi Vlore</a>

Thanks,
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Marco Gasi

Here you go:

$lines = file('textfile.txt');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    echo "<a title=\"$line\" href=\"http://www.test.fr/$line\">$line</a><br />";
}

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ASKER

Hi ,

In the second part of the $line it should add - instead of space.

Thanks

Marco Gasi

Ooops, sorry:

$lines = file('textfile.txt');
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    $urlline = str_replace(' ', '-', $line);
    echo "<a title=\"$line\" href=\"http://www.test.fr/$urlline\">$line</a><br />";
}

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ozo

Why is bari-durres-bari lowecased but Brindisi-Vlore capitalized?

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ASKER

Ozo ,

Thanks for checking in .

Yes, it should be in lowercase only as my 1st sample in the output .

Sorry for pasting it wrong.

Thanks

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Marco Gasi

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ozo

perl -Mutf8 -Mcharnames=:full -lpe '$s=$_;utf8::decode$_;s/\s/-/g;s{([^\0-\177])}{charnames::string_vianame(((charnames::viacode ord $1)=~/(.*?)( WITH )?/)[0])}ge;$_=qq{<a title="$s" href="http://www.test.fr/\L$_\E/">$_</a>}'

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ASKER

Thanks MarqusG, it works well.

Ozo , You are genius in perl :)

I always really wonder what actually is the code .

But as a learning part , can you provide a simple perl script instead one liner with comments?

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ozo

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Thanks everyone for your kind help.

I will close this question sooner.