printing html entities

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Re: html by plaid (Chaplain) on May 23, 2000 at 08:45 UTC
There are two basic ways around this. The first is to use the html special characters for this, &lt and &gt, for < and > respectively. The other solution is to enclose the entire block in a <xmp> block, the contents of which are displayed as-is. Updated: Brain fart. I meant xmp instead of pre. Really. I did. :)	[reply]
RE: Re: html by perlmonkey (Hermit) on May 23, 2000 at 09:22 UTC
The second part is not correct. <PRE></PRE> will still interpret the <iostream.h> Use a <XMP> block or since this is permonks: `$code =~ s/>/>/g; $code =~ s/</</g;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: Re: html by merlyn (Sage) on May 23, 2000 at 19:28 UTC
Or, just use `HTML::Entities` from the LWP library. You do have that installed, don't you?	[reply]
RE: Re: html by swiftone (Curate) on May 23, 2000 at 19:16 UTC
Make sure you use the semicolon after the > and < tags. Some older browsers will not parse them without them.	[reply]
RE: RE: Re: html by Anonymous Monk on May 24, 2000 at 00:39 UTC
Or some new ones =) The spec for those codes says that the ";" is needed unless the ampersand and codestring are followed by whitespace or other character illegal in a codestring. That means that <html> always works, <html> is wrong since <h may someday mean something and then which do you choose? IE tries to find a working match down the string which is nice but breaks in the future and shows the wrong tag. It has also taught a half million people to do it wrong and then yell at the NS and Opera people.	[reply]
RE: html by turnstep (Parson) on May 23, 2000 at 19:40 UTC
Or, so it the reverse of what merlyn suggested: instead of knowing all the html tags, know all the C++ things likely to be included. For example, the regexp `s/<([^> ]*\.h)>/<$1>/g;` [download] should take care of your example...	[reply] [d/l]


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