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Re^4: HTML::Entities - encode all non-alphanumeric and foreign chars?by punch_card_don (Curate) |
on Sep 23, 2007 at 20:33 UTC ( [id://640611]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Yes, absolutely right - double quotes. Replacing with single quotes makes '\W' work like a charm. Thanks.
But, just to be finicky and difficult, '\W\s' is still converting spaces to  . UPDATE: Ya, of course it was. This is the list of UNSAFE characters to be encoded. So if I include '\W\s', that specificlaly tells it to encode spaces. What I want is '^\w\s' - anything that's not a word char or a space. Works perfect now. UPDATE 2 OK, now this is very cool. With this formulation, I can create a very well defined list of what is and is not to be encoded. For example (what I'm using): encodes everything that is NOT a word char, or a space, or a period, or a dash (backslash needed to escape 'cause the dash is part of the module's syntax)
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