Re^3: XMLin question

I was curious if there was some way to auto-convert < to < as well as tags like this in general instead of manually doing this, from an end user perspective.

:| You don't say :/

perl -pe "%f = qw{ < &lt; > &gt; }; s{[^><]\K([><])([^\w])}{ $f{$1}$2}
+g; " < in > out
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Re^4: XMLin question by Anonymous Monk on Feb 15, 2013 at 18:21 UTC
naturally, untested, doesn't work :/	[reply]
Re^5: XMLin question by bart (Canon) on Feb 15, 2013 at 22:25 UTC
I'm not surprised. `\K` was added in perl 5.10 but with `-e` perl won't use any features that are so "recent". Try "-E" instead, at least, if you have perl 5.10 or later. But, I don't think it will work, anyway. `/([><])([^\w])/` would fix every "`</`" in your XML, and that just isn't right.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: XMLin question by Anonymous Monk on Feb 15, 2013 at 22:43 UTC
I'm not surprised. \K was added in perl 5.10 but with -e perl won't use any features that are so "recent". That doesn't apply to regex syntax, see feature Anyway, I didn't test oneliner originally, and didn't try hard to fix it because I wrote xmlfixup.pl	[reply]