Multiple text article into html template?

hi guys

so i guess it's pretty noobish question but here you go .I have few hundreds of articles i wanna use in one of my project.These are plain txt files with no html tags. My posting tool require files to be in specific html format, nothing complicated, just a few tags like <br> and <p>.I am sure there is some simple tool that can convert at once multiple txt files into specific html template so i can use these converted articles with my posting tool.

I am sure it's nothing complicated but since i just started learning html and php i don't know how can i do it myslef.Any help, would be much appreciated

thanks for your time

Do you know any other languages? This would be a Windows type app I would write in VB.

Just load the file, replace vbCrLf with <br /> ...

Next File.

hi

unfortunately i don't know any other languages:| but i can bet it's nothing complicated and was done many times before with some nice little app? i still looking for some ideas so if anyone can help that would be great.In other words what i wanna do is to add some html tags into few hundreds articles, and i don't wanna do it manually!so if you wanna add some custom text or format to all your db of articles and have no time to do it manually how do you achieve this?
thanks