How to make HTML Tables

I have written a simple DOS program called HTML-TAB.EXE that will take any ASCII text file, must have a .TXT extension, and make it into a useful HTML table to be viewed via an Internet type browser.

Two things have to be done in order that the correct output is achieved :-

Ensure that the first line of the ASCII file has a number of 'T' s to indicate the Tab settings for the data.
The second line must have table heading data.

Example


         T        T       T
         Name     Rank    Serial Number
         Fred     Worker  123
         Bert     Boss    007

If data has been generated automatically by a spread sheet, data base or AutoCAD data extraction, then the top two lines will be missing. If one places this data in a file called TOP.TTT for example, then a batch file can be called to add the generated file to the top data.

       COPY TOP.TTT + GENDATA.TXT NEWDATA.TXT
       HTML-TAB NEWDATA Heading

Syntax

The program requires two parameters one for the file to be read, the other a table caption or heading.

The file has to have a .TXT extension but you do not enter this.

Example

     HTML-TAB TESTFILE Test

This will process a file named testfile.txt and make a newfile named testfile.html the caption for the table will be Test.

Test
Name Rank Serial Number

Fred Worker 123

Bert Boss 007

Test
	Name	Rank	Serial Number
	Fred	Worker	123
	Bert	Boss	007

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This page was updated on 22 December 1998
by Terry Rawkins