On 26 Oct 2021, at 21:58, Sonic Purity wrote:
*Issue*: when replacing HTML which contains &: using the BBEdit
*replace* command
in an AppleScript, the placeholder text being replaced is included at
each
occurrence of & in the replacement text, surrounded by the (desired)
replacement text.
That's because you've specified a Grep search, in which "&" in the
replacement string specifies expansion of the entire match when
calculating the replacement. Chapter 8 of the user manual will have
details.
There's no need to specify "search mode: grep" unless you specifically
plan to perform regular expression pattern matching(*) in your search or
replacement; and as you've just demonstrated, unnecessarily specifying
"search mode: grep" can cause unexpected side effects. :-)
(* NB: backslash single-character escapes (such as \", \n, \t and so
forth) do not require grep searching.)
R.
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