Hi Monks,
How are you doing today? I am in a little trouble and need your help with regex.
I am replacing some strings in JavaScript. However, I believe the same regex will work for both JavaScript and Perl.

With my method of replacing, I am getting into the problem of recursive replacement.
I want to do the following.
1. Replace & with &
2. Replace < with <
3. Replace > with >
4. Replace &lt; with <
5. Replace &gt; with >

I tried to include the following code snippets in my JS code.

new_json_string = new_json_string.replace(/&amp;/g, '&');
new_json_string = new_json_string.replace(/&lt;/g, '<');
new_json_string = new_json_string.replace(/&gt;/g, '>');

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But the problem with the above code snippet is, both text segments like [&lt;] and [&amp;lt;] will be replaced ultimately with [<] symbol. Is it possible to include all the three replacements in a single statement to avoid recursive replacement?
Your help is highly appreciated, Thank you very much in advance.

In reply to Avoid recursive replacement using regex by anirudhkumar_r

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