From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2003-01-27T19:21:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Very nasty piece of code

Hello Peter,

Monday, January 27, 2003, 12:44:41 PM, you wrote:

PH>    # Converting from &#XX; to \'XX
PH> Surely there is a better way to do this.

sorry. below is tested code :)

string=" &#11; &#12;"
string.gsub! (/&#([0-9a-fA-F]{2});/)  {"\\'" + $1}
print string

ps: see standart types/regular expressions/Backslash Sequences in the Substitution
in pickaxe book
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 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru