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<p>I saw that the Neo4j API uses ASCII Art very cleverly with its API:</p> <p><a href="http://jaxenter.com/getting-started-with-neo4j-the-java-graph-database-47955.html">http://jaxenter.com/getting-started-with-neo4j-the-java-graph-database-47955.html</a></p> <p>I want to try something similar, but with ASCI Art to HTML. How can ASCII art be parsed, so for example, given an ASCII Art input something like:</p> <pre><code>-------------------------------- I I I ------- ------- I I I I I I I I I A I I B I I I I I I I I I ------- ------- I I I I I -------------------------------- </code></pre> <p>: could result in HTML output something like:</p> <pre><code><div> <div style='display:inline;'> A </div> <div style='display:inline;'> B </div> </div> </code></pre> <h1>Update</h1> <p>The question was closed citing that I need to "demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved.". I do have an understanding of the problem to be solved. The problem is that I want to solve is to make templated HTML easier to understand in source code for the following web framework:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/zubairq/coils">https://github.com/zubairq/coils</a></p> <p>: although the solution could be applied to any web framework. I have since seen someone attempt to make an initial version in C++ here:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/h3nr1x/asciidivs2html/blob/master/asciidivs2html.cpp">https://github.com/h3nr1x/asciidivs2html/blob/master/asciidivs2html.cpp</a></p> <p>: very impressive! If you can get it to work in Java or Clojure then if we can get the question reopened I will nominate a bounty so you can get more points for the solution :)</p> <p>I ran the Java solution provided by @meewok and here is the result:</p> <pre><code>$ java AsciiToDIVs.RunConverter Created a box(ID=0,X=0,Y=0,width=33,height=10) Created a box(ID=1,X=2,Y=4,width=8,height=5,parent=0) Created a char(Char=A,X=4,Y=7,parent=1) Created a box(ID=2,X=2,Y=21,width=8,height=5,parent=0) Created a char(Char=B,X=4,Y=24,parent=2) <div><div><div>A</div></div><div><div>B</div></div></div> </code></pre>
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