Re: Question for regex experts

 perl -e '$x=qw(&apm;gt;lt;amp;);$x=~s/;(.)/;&$1/g;print $x,"\n";'
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Re^2: Question for regex experts by evgen-i (Novice) on Jun 27, 2013 at 12:29 UTC
Thanks, but this is just a solution for this particular example; I need a general solution for any codes.	[reply]
Re^3: Question for regex experts by sumeetgrover (Monk) on Jun 27, 2013 at 12:37 UTC
You need to implement a lookup table that contains a list of all possible, or otherwise a subset, of HTML character codes. Therefore, each time your program encounters code; instead of &code; , it will need to add an ampersand at the start.	[reply]