permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

Needed: Text editor with HTML coding capability + S&R w. regular/meta 
expressions in macros

Can anyone recommend a good text editor I can use to automate some html 
coding?
I need to turn an ascii text (.txt) file into an .html file. The text file(s) 
in question
contain single column lists of named html files that exist in a directory 
folder.
I have lots of saved web pages that include the .html file and its associated 
files (graphics, etc.)
in a separate folder with the same name as the html file but with -files 
appended to the name.
I want to parse the list line by line and convert each html filename to an active link in a webpage with the name of the 
file becoming the real name of the link.

Ex.:

how-to-build-a tailstock-taper-attachment.html      30k

Would become:

First delete the file size, i.e. 30k then create the entire line of hmtl code:

<br><a href="http://how-to-build-a tailstock-taper-attachment.html">how-to-build-a 
tailstock-taper-attachment.html</a>

If this editor has search and replace with macros that can use regular or meta-expressions then I could possibly build 
the above line of code with a few macros. Crude but effective. I would imagine html editors can do this easily, or maybe 
not. Doing this with cut and paste by hand line by line is not an easy solution.

Thanks for any feedback.

LL