Just because tmtowtdi (even if it is not very efficient):
$item = join '', map { s/</</ or s/>/>/; $_ } split //, $item;
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:51, Chas Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:39, John Edwards wrote:
> > Why *must* it be a one liner. I think my suggestion is easier to understand
> > for someone having to maintain your code. If there is no other reason than
> > "I want a one liner" to do this on one line, then why not do it on two??
> > Just because it is possible in one line, doesn't mean it's the best
> > approach.
> >
> > To me this:
> >
> > $item = "<blah>";
> >
> > $item =~ s/</</g;
> > $item =~ s/>/>/g;
> >
> > Seems far easier to understand than either this:
> >
> > $item = "<blah>";
> >
> > $item =~ s/([<>])/'&'. ($1 eq'<' ? 'l':'g') . 't;'/eg;
> >
> > or this:
> >
> > my %entity = (
> > '<' => '<',
> > '>' => '>',
> > '&' => '&',
> > );
> >
> > $item = "<blah>";
> >
> > $item =~ s/([<>&])/$entity{$1}/ge;
> >
> > which isn't even a one liner as you have to define a lookup hash to begin
> > with.
>
> True it is not a one liner, but it does look nicer and is easier to
> extend than individual regexs if you are defining a lot of entities
> (that is why my example had an & in it). Of course you should probably
> not be doing any of this yourself; I am sure a module exists out there
> to handle this sort of case.
> >
> > All IMHO ;)
> >
> > John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Briac Pilpr� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 31 January 2002 14:35
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: html entity conversion... one liner?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:06:06 -0000, Michael Kavanagh
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I thought it would be good to be able to do this:
> > >
> > > $item = "<blah>";
> > > $item =~ tr/<>/(<)(>)/;
> > >
> > > to convert those <> symbols to their entity references. however, the
> > > tr operator doesn't seem to like using () to group... any comments on
> > > how to make this operation in to a one-liner?
> >
> > Here's a possible suboptimal one-liner approach:
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > use strict;
> >
> > my $item = "<gah>buh</gah> zoh";
> >
> > $item =~ s/([<>])/'&'. ($1 eq'<' ? 'l':'g') . 't;'/eg;
> >
> > print $item;
> >
> >
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