why not just have a form field allowing the user to enter the name and have
the rest of the html already in your ASP code?
Cheers, Sam
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From: "jake williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: automatically formatting html files for asp
> hello!
>
> working on a html email project at the moment and i'm trying to automate
> the conversion process from html document, into the format i need for my
> asp script.
>
> what i need to write is a search and replace function (i think!)
>
> for example i need to turn:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>test</title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> </head>
> <body>
> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
> <tr>
> <td>name</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>line two</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>line three</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> into this:
>
> mailbody = "<html>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<html>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<head>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<title>test</title>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<meta http-equiv=""Content-Type""
> content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"">"
> mailbody = mailbody & "</head>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<body>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<table border=""0"" cellspacing=""0""
> cellpadding=""3"">
> mailbody = mailbody & "<tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<td>name</td>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "</tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<td>line two</td>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "</tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "<td>line three</td>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "</tr>"
> mailbody = mailbody & "</table>"
>
> so thats basically adding ' mailbody = " ' to the 1st line, ' mailbody =
> mailbody & " ' to the start of the following lines and a ' " ' to then
> end of the line. also andy ' " ' need to change to ' "" '.
>
> i will also need to feed areas of the html with dynamic data - for
> example the text 'name' would have to be changed to:
>
> " & results.fields.item("FIRSTNAME").value & "
>
> so the line becomes:
>
> mailbody = mailbody & "<td>" & results.fields.item("FIRSTNAME").value &
> "</td>"
>
> all very time consuming to do manually!
>
> i'm looking around and getting started on stuff but would be interested
> if the list thinks this kind of thing is possible? what i'm thinking of
> is a form page that asks you for an html document you want to convert,
> which then points to the script which amends it, saves it and then
> pass's the file name onto the email script as an include....
>
> woooo!!!
>
> any thoughts would be grand,
>
> cheers,
>
> jake
>
>
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