Re: Regex not matching all in DB

you need to escape some stuff...try:

$_[0] =~ s/\&lt\;/</g;
$_[0] =~ s/\&gt\;/>/g;
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Re: Regex not matching all in DB by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 30, 2003 at 17:43 UTC
Huh? You only need to escape characters that have a special meaning for the regex machine. Care to point out the meaning of `;`? And could you also write a doc patch? `perlre.pod` doesn't document the special behaviour of the semi-colon. Abigail	[reply] [d/l] [select]