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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tx for help. It is working.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Robert Virding
[mailto:rvirding@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:46
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> shehan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">erlang-questions@erlang.org</st1:PersonName>;
<st1:PersonName w:st="on">chinthaka@wavenet.lk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [erlang-questions]
regexp behaviour</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
If you quote the '&' character with \ then you will get a & in the out
put string. So<br>
<br>
Str1 = "String with \\& character"<br>
<br>
N.B. you need an extra \ because it is in a string and the string parsing
converts \\ into \ in the resultant string.<br>
<br>
Robert<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 15/03/2008, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>shehan</span></b>
<<a href="mailto:shehan@wavenet.lk">shehan@wavenet.lk</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi
all,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Is
the some way to stop the following behaviour of the "sub" function in
the "regexp" module</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Str1
= "String with & character"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Str2
= "Replace the following tag <replace> with str1"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>regexp:sub(Str2,
"<replace>", Str1).</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>{ok,
NewStr, Count} = regexp:gsub(Str1, ["<ad2>"], Ad2). </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>NewStr.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"Replace
the following tag String with <replace> character with str1"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
<replace> is replaced by the content of Str1, but the & character in
Str1 has been replaced by the </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>replaced
character set <replace>. is there some way to stop this from happening.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanx</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Shehan</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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