grep puzzle

[KhanyBoy]

Hi,

this should test you guru's. I want a function that accepts text as an
argument and converts all & into & except where it is a html
character already such as  , ", and of course &.

If there is already a php function for this I would like to know, but
if not, what is the GREP equivilent?

Thanks

[Alvaro G Vicario]

*** KhanyBoy wrote/escribió (10 Jun 2004 14:22:24 -0700):

this should test you guru's. I want a function that accepts text as an
argument and converts all & into & except where it is a html
character already such as  , ", and of course &.

I can't figure out how you manage to get such a garbled input. Anyway, I
guess a combination of html_entity_dec ode() and html_entities() should
help.
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[Justin Koivisto]

KhanyBoy wrote:

this should test you guru's. I want a function that accepts text as an
argument and converts all & into & except where it is a html
character already such as  , ", and of course &.

If there is already a php function for this I would like to know, but
if not, what is the GREP equivilent?

OK, this does that, but it may not be a very elegant soltion. I recently
needed the same functionality for a project involving oscommerce.

function ampersandFix($x ){
$x=str_replace( '&','&',$x) ;
$pattern='`&amp ;(#[0-9]{2,3}|aacute|ac irc|acute|aelig |agrave|amp'.
'|aring|atilde| auml|brvbar|brk bar|ccedil|cedi l|cent'.
'|copy|curren|d eg|divide|eacut e|ecirc|egrave| eth|euml'.
'|frac12|frac14 |frac34|gt|iacu te|icirc|iexcl| igrave'.
'|iquest|iuml|l aquo|lt|macr|hi bar|micro|middo t|nbsp|not'.
'|ntilde|oacute |ocirc|ograve|o rdf|ordm|oslash |otilde'.
'|ouml|para|plu smn|pound|quot| raquo|reg|sect| shy|sup1|sup2'.
'|sup3|szlig|th orn|times|uacut e|ucirc|ugrave| uml'.
'|die|uuml|yacu te|yen|yuml);`i ';
$replace='&$1;' ;
return preg_reacple($p attern,$replace ,$x);
}
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[Christian Fersch]

Justin Koivisto wrote:

KhanyBoy wrote:

If there is already a php function for this I would like to know, but
if not, what is the GREP equivilent?

OK, this does that, but it may not be a very elegant soltion. I recently
needed the same functionality for a project involving oscommerce.

function ampersandFix($x ){
$x=str_replace( '&','&',$x) ;
$pattern='`&amp ;(#[0-9]{2,3}|aacute|ac irc|acute|aelig |agrave|amp'.
'|aring|atilde| auml|brvbar|brk bar|ccedil|cedi l|cent'.
'|copy|curren|d eg|divide|eacut e|ecirc|egrave| eth|euml'.
'|frac12|frac14 |frac34|gt|iacu te|icirc|iexcl| igrave'.
'|iquest|iuml|l aquo|lt|macr|hi bar|micro|middo t|nbsp|not'.
'|ntilde|oacute |ocirc|ograve|o rdf|ordm|oslash |otilde'.
'|ouml|para|plu smn|pound|quot| raquo|reg|sect| shy|sup1|sup2'.
'|sup3|szlig|th orn|times|uacut e|ucirc|ugrave| uml'.
'|die|uuml|yacu te|yen|yuml);`i ';
$replace='&$1;' ;
return preg_reacple($p attern,$replace ,$x);
}

A lot faster, but not as accurate:
$text = preg_replace('! &(?![#a-z0-9]{1,7};)!i','&am p',$text);

You could also use this method (it's a lookahead assertion) with
Justin's function, which will still be a lot faster than his hack ;)

Greetings Christian.

[John Dunlop]

KhanyBoy wrote:

this should test you guru's. I want a function that accepts text as an
argument and converts all & into & except where it is a html
character already such as  , ", and of course &.

Why are entity references recognised in text?

--
Jock

[FLEB]

Regarding this well-known quote, often attributed to KhanyBoy's famous "10
Jun 2004 14:22:24 -0700" speech:

Hi,

this should test you guru's. I want a function that accepts text as an
argument and converts all & into & except where it is a html
character already such as  , ", and of course &.

If there is already a php function for this I would like to know, but
if not, what is the GREP equivilent?

Thanks

It might be a different direction, but here are some functions to determine
whether something is an HTML entity, using the built-in PHP entity
functions. It's sort of a recycled reply to an earlier question:

A simple (rough) test of the concept is online at:
http://php.pixelsaredead.com/htmlentities.php

<?php
/*
How to determine whether a given string decodes to an HTML entity
*/

function contains_entiti es($raw)
{
// $raw can be a string of any length
$raw = trim($raw);
return (strlen(htmlent ities($raw)) > strlen($raw));
}

function is_entity_refer ence($raw)
{
// $raw should be a string with only the entity ref in it,
// in the form "&...;"

return (preg_match('/&.+;/', $raw)) &&
(strlen(html_en tity_decode(tri m($raw))) == 1);
}
?>
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[Justin Koivisto]

Christian Fersch wrote:

Justin Koivisto wrote:

KhanyBoy wrote:

If there is already a php function for this I would like to know, but
if not, what is the GREP equivilent?

OK, this does that, but it may not be a very elegant soltion. I
recently needed the same functionality for a project involving
oscommerce.

function ampersandFix($x ){
$x=str_replace( '&','&amp;',$x) ;
$pattern='`&amp ;(#[0-9]{2,3}|aacute|ac irc|acute|aelig |agrave|amp'.
'|aring|atilde| auml|brvbar|brk bar|ccedil|cedi l|cent'.
'|copy|curren|d eg|divide|eacut e|ecirc|egrave| eth|euml'.
'|frac12|frac14 |frac34|gt|iacu te|icirc|iexcl| igrave'.
'|iquest|iuml|l aquo|lt|macr|hi bar|micro|middo t|nbsp|not'.
'|ntilde|oacute |ocirc|ograve|o rdf|ordm|oslash |otilde'.
'|ouml|para|plu smn|pound|quot| raquo|reg|sect| shy|sup1|sup2'.
'|sup3|szlig|th orn|times|uacut e|ucirc|ugrave| uml'.
'|die|uuml|yacu te|yen|yuml);`i ';
$replace='&$1;' ;
return preg_reacple($p attern,$replace ,$x);
}

A lot faster, but not as accurate:
$text = preg_replace('! &(?![#a-z0-9]{1,7};)!i','&am p',$text);

You could also use this method (it's a lookahead assertion) with
Justin's function, which will still be a lot faster than his hack ;)

Let's fix the hack then, shall we?

function ampersandFix($x ){
$pattern='`&(?! (#[0-9]{2,3}|aacute|ac irc|acute|aelig |agrave|amp'.
'|aring|atilde| auml|brvbar|brk bar|ccedil|cedi l|cent'.
'|copy|curren|d eg|divide|eacut e|ecirc|egrave| eth|euml'.
'|frac12|frac14 |frac34|gt|iacu te|icirc|iexcl| igrave'.
'|iquest|iuml|l aquo|lt|macr|hi bar|micro|middo t|nbsp|not'.
'|ntilde|oacute |ocirc|ograve|o rdf|ordm|oslash |otilde'.
'|ouml|para|plu smn|pound|quot| raquo|reg|sect| shy|sup1|sup2'.
'|sup3|szlig|th orn|times|uacut e|ucirc|ugrave| uml'.
'|die|uuml|yacu te|yen|yuml);)` i';
return preg_replace($p attern,'&amp;', $x);
}

Now it's faster AND accurate. ;)

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