How can I convert plain text to HTML (preferably using Perl)?

Question

Is there a way to take a plain text file and convert it to a simple HTML?

A couple of 'sophisticated' stuff that will be great

• identify hyper-links.
• identify (tab delimited) tables.

UPDATE

I just found this HTML::FromText. Checking to see if it meets my needs...

Answer 1

Try HTML::TextToHTML:

From the command line:

txt2html I<arguments>

From Scripts:

use HTML::TextToHTML;

# create a new object
my $conv = new HTML::TextToHTML();

# convert a file
$conv->txt2html(infile=>[$text_file],
                 outfile=>$html_file,
                 title=>"Wonderful Things",
                 mail=>1,
  ]);

# reset arguments
$conv->args(infile=>[], mail=>0);

# convert a string
$newstring = $conv->process_chunk($mystring)

Answer 2

Text::Markdown

Stack Overflow already uses Markdown because it's the best mark-up language targeted to general text to HTML conversion. Named links are explained in the editing help.