in reply to regex & variable substitution

Further investigation showed a flaw in the regexp. I think it should be: 
s/&([^;\s]+);/..

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ie, we avoid any words that start with an ampersand, but don't end in a semi-colon. The questionmarks, for non-greedy, become superfluos...


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