in reply to Re^2: close end tag
in thread close end tag

What does this mean? You want to convert '<' to  &lt; and '>' to &gt;

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Re^4: close end tag
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2009 at 08:51 UTC 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
while($line = <DATA>){

@valid_entities= ('<a>','<abbr>','<acronym>');
my %htmlenties = map { $_ =>1 } @valid_entities;

$line =~  s/(<(\w+?)>)/exists $htmlenties{$1} ? $1 : defined ($2) ? "&
+lt;$2&gt;" : "&lt;"/eg;

print $line;
}

__DATA__
<helloe>How r u <a> www.google.com</a>
<Hi>How r u </hi>

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    Hi, I have replaced the '<' with &lt; and '>' with &gt;
    But now the problem is
    even if the tag has closing tag, the character get's replaced.
    Please tell me how to avoid it?
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