From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T18:51:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Very nasty piece of code

Hello Peter,

Monday, January 27, 2003, 12:44:41 PM, you wrote:
PH> while string =~ /(&#([0-9a-fA-F]{2});)/ do
PH>    # Converting from &#XX; to \'XX

PH>    string.sub!($1, "\\\\\\\''#{$2}")

smth like

string.sub! $1 {"\\'#{$2}"}

or even

string.sub! $1 {"\\'" . $2}

2all: this may go to faq?


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