Re: How to modify an attribute containing special characters in a xml file?

What do you expect?

& is a special character in XML and a literal & needs to be encoded as & in XML. Maybe you did not want &#xA in your original string but something else?

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Re^2: How to modify an attribute containing special characters in a xml file? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Sep 30, 2016 at 11:07 UTC
ok got your point but I want that expression only in my string . any suggestions regarding how should I proceed??	[reply]
Re^3: How to modify an attribute containing special characters in a xml file? by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 30, 2016 at 11:13 UTC
You will need to learn about ampersand-encoding and XML then. I guess that ` ` is already encoded and the ` ` stands for the character `\x0A` in Perl parlance. So you will need to change your initial string to: `my $string="Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics\x0APackage: GMLAN +3.1 - Single Channel\x0AMicro: uPD70F3524\x0ACompiler: Green Hills 5. +1.7-BD1110030";` [download] or, in a more sensible fashion: `my $string= join "\n", "Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics", "Package: GMLAN 3.1 - Single Channel", "Micro: uPD70F3524", "Compiler: Green Hills 5.1.7-BD1110030";` [download] I guess that the original text contains line breaks and you want to preserve them.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How to modify an attribute containing special characters in a xml file? by ankit.tayal560 (Beadle) on Sep 30, 2016 at 12:09 UTC
Hi Corion, Thanks a lot ! I was scratching my head on that problem for so long. your solution works perfectly.	[reply]