Re: replace &

Why bother? A lone '&' is perfectly valid HTML, and all major browsers display it correctly. '&' only needs escaping if it could be parsed as part of an entity when it shouldn't.

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Re^2: replace & by Melly (Chaplain) on Aug 20, 2009 at 11:06 UTC
"Why bother?" - presumably because that was the assignment ;) Anon Monk, can we see your efforts before we try and help? That said, it sounds like you need to match an ampersand that has a whitespace character before and after it... `map{$a=1-$_/10;map{$d=$a;$e=$b=$_/20-2;map{($d,$e)=(2$d$e+$a,$e2 -$d2+$b);$c=$d2+$e2>4?$d=8:_}1..50;print$c}0..59;print$/}0..20` [download] Tom Melly, pm (at) cursingmaggot (stop) co (stop) uk	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: replace &
by Melly (Chaplain) on Aug 20, 2009 at 11:06 UTC

"Why bother?" - presumably because that was the assignment ;)

Anon Monk, can we see your efforts before we try and help? That said, it sounds like you need to match an ampersand that has a whitespace character before and after it...

map{$a=1-$_/10;map{$d=$a;$e=$b=$_/20-2;map{($d,$e)=(2*$d*$e+$a,$e**2
-$d**2+$b);$c=$d**2+$e**2>4?$d=8:_}1..50;print$c}0..59;print$/}0..20
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