[sf-perl] One more reason why I use Perl...

Michael Friedman friedman at highwire.stanford.edu
Tue May 11 11:20:02 PDT 2010


Before you get too excited, there are existing packages that do this for Java & C, you know. For example: 
	http://commons.apache.org/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html

Those other languages don't *have* to write the routine from scratch either.
-- Mike
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Mike Friedman | HighWire Press, Stanford Univ | friedman at highwire.stanford.edu

On May 11, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Earl Ruby wrote:

> One more reason why I use Perl...
> 
> Unescape HTML special characters from a String
> http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Unescape_HTML_special_characters_from_a_String
> 
> (Scroll to the bottom for the Perl version)
> 
> -- 
> Earl Ruby
> http://earlruby.org/
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