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Jun 21, 1999, 6:30 AM
Chris Croome
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Jun 21, 1999, 6:30 AM
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converting special characters
Hi

A problem I have got with FileMan also affects DBMan (and Links for that matter), and I would like to fix it for a couple of sites where I have DBMan installed as news databases. Basically the problem is that things like &s get messed up, more info here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...um7/HTML/000088.html

Anyone fancy doing a little bit of perl to enable it to be fixed?

Chris
Jun 21, 1999, 1:15 PM
JPDeni
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Jun 21, 1999, 1:15 PM
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Sorry I missed your post yesterday. Sometimes that happens.

You can set it up to substitute the html equivalents. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this, but this is all I can think of right now.

Code:
$character[0] = '©';
$substitute[0] = '& copy;';
for ($i=0; $i<= $#character; ++$i) {
$text =~ s/$character[$i]/$substitute[$i]/g;
}

You would need to define the variables for each special character you wanted to convert.


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JPD