In comp.lang.perl.misc, Willem <wil...@toad.stack.nl> wrote: > In Perl, it would be applicable. You see, in Perl, you can call a function > in the replacement of the regex substitution, which can then look up the > html entity and return the wanted unicode literal.
A function? I'd use a hash. > I think you can do that in some other languages as well. Hash / array type substitutions indexed by $1 (or language equivilent) are probably easy to implement in many languages. Elijah ------ for really fast, write code to generate a C lexer to do it -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
