Re: Replace alphabetical letters with phrases?

Quick and dirty answer.  For the short term (I'm assuming you're talking 
about $alpha):

$temp = $alpha
if($temp =~ /C/)  {$temp =~ s/C/Congress/}
elsif ($temp =~ /H/) {$temp =~ s/H/House/}
elsif {$temp =! /S/} {$temp =~ s/S/Senate/}
>   print OUT "<A NAME=\"$alpha\">\n<FONT
> COLOR=\"#000066\"><H2>- $temp -</H2>
> </FONT>\n</A>\n";

You'll probably want to replace this with a pattern or something better if 
it gets more complicated.  (Ie a hash with the mapping).


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