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| Expression |
&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6};|#[0-9]{3};) |
| Description |
The goal of this regular expression is to replace all & (ampersand) characters by & if they are not the start of HTML entities. I used
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entitiesref.asp as a reference. You can then use RegExp Replace method to do the work. Was helpful for me, might helpful be for you... |
| Matches |
&ThisIsTooLong; | Lilo & Stich | &l; |
| Non-Matches |
< | ¦ | ¦ |
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Frederick Samson
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Title: Very good
Name: Runnerdave
Date: 12/21/2005 7:48:33 PM
Comment:
simple and does the job I am using php so if anyone needs it there just remember to put the delimiters like:
function valid_querystring($in_string){
$in_string = preg_replace("/&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6};|#[0-9]{3};)/", "&", $in_string);
return $in_string;
}
Title: Correction for longer decimal entities
Name: Chris Kampmeier
Date: 7/10/2004 12:13:23 AM
Comment:
&(?![a-zA-Z]{2,6};|#[0-9]{3,5};)
Title: Too strict
Name: Critic
Date: 6/8/2004 1:16:29 PM
Comment:
This expression is a bit too strict:
ε should be valid (Length=7)
〹 should be valid (Unicode)
邯 should be valid (Hexadecimal notation)
