What is the quickest way to format and copy a quote in a programming language?

[Dembadon]

...so forgive the stupid game:

What would be the most efficient way to reproduce the following without using keyboard shortcuts for formatting, or any variant of a quote + copy-paste method?

Do you know how long this took?

 

[dav2008]

My submission:

Do you know how long this took?

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2668/append.gif

I'm sure you could write a script in any language to go through any string and append the tags to every other letter.

 

[Carnivroar]

[/QUOTE]

raphael@raphael:~$ cat bored.java
public class bored {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String r = "";
        int j = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < args[0].length(); i++) {
            if (args[0].charAt(i) != ' ' && j++ % 2 == 0) 
                r += String.format("[b][u][i]%s[/b][/u][/i]", args[0].charAt(i));
            else
                r += args[0].charAt(i);
        }
        System.out.println(r);
    }
}
raphael@raphael:~$ javac bored.java
raphael@raphael:~$ java bored "Do you know how long this took?"
[b][u][i]D[/b][/u][/i]o [b][u][i]y[/b][/u][/i]o[b][u][i]u[/b][/u][/i] k[b][u][i]n[/b][/u][/i]o[b][u][i]w[/b][/u][/i] h[b][u][i]o[/b][/u][/i]w [b][u][i]l[/b][/u][/i]o[b][u][i]n[/b][/u][/i]g [b][u][i]t[/b][/u][/i]h[b][u][i]i[/b][/u][/i]s [b][u][i]t[/b][/u][/i]o[b][u][i]o[/b][/u][/i]k[b][u][i]?[/b][/u][/i]

 

[Borek]

[noparse]borek@invincible ~/python $ cat bored.py
text='Do you know how long this took?'
outtext = ''
switch = 1

for c in text:
   if c == ' ':
      outtext += ' '
   else:
      if switch:
         outtext += '[b][u][i]'+c+'[/i][/u][/b]'
      else:
         outtext += c
      switch = 1 - switch

print outtext
borek@invincible ~/python $ python bored.py
[b][u][i]D[/i][/u][/b]o [b][u][i]y[/i][/u][/b]o[b][u][i]u[/i][/u][/b] k[b][u][i]n[/i][/u][/b]o[b][u][i]w[/i][/u][/b] h[b][u][i]o[/i][/u][/b]w [b][u][i]l[/i][/u][/b]o[b][u][i]n[/i][/u][/b]g [b][u][i]t[/i][/u][/b]h[b][u][i]i[/i][/u][/b]s [b][u][i]t[/i][/u][/b]o[b][u][i]o[/i][/u][/b]k[b][u][i]?[/i][/u][/b][/noparse]

Do you know how long this took?

If you are really bored you should try to code it in brain****

Sigh, one even can't post a proper name of that language.