Re: talking to Perl for a text-cleanup.

Okay, try this..... $clean_text = $unformatted_text | perl -MText::Autoformat -e'autoformat' julien Beauviala wrote:

On (15/04/03 11:26), John Nichel wrote:

I understand what you're trying to do. What I was asking is how do you pass the message to the perl if you were actually doing this via command line right now. Do you pass it a file, a string, something else?

oh, well, I would do something like mysql -e commandfile | perl -MText::Autoformat -e'autoformat' as that particular text (the email) is within a MySQL db when I access it from a PHP page.

julien Beauviala wrote:

On (15/04/03 11:03), John Nichel wrote:

How do you normally pass it?

I don't, that's what I'm after. Basically I want to do the same thing as the following : $somefield = "bla blabla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla "; $cleantext = wordwrap($somefield, 63); echo $cleantext; but using perl -MText::Autoformat -e'autoformat instead of wordwrap. I hope it's clearer. j.