[SOLVED] Re: Simple Html2Txt function , doesn't work for `&' symbol ?

[Aaron Lewis]

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On 07/30/2010 04:55 PM, John Beckett wrote:
> Aaron Lewis wrote:
>> Consider following function , i tried to do a simple
>> html conversation, not working for the third one ?
>>
>> function HtmlToText()
>>         exec "%s/&lt;/</g"
>>         exec "%s/&gt;/>/g"
>>         exec "%s/&amp;/\&/g"
>> endfunc
> 
> Probably something to do with using a double-quoted string
> (try :echo "a\&b").
> 
> You do not need to "execute" a command, so just omit all the
> "exec" and quotes. The tip with the polished product is:

Exactly working after remove all exec statements.

> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/HTML_entities
> 
> John
> 

They're much more cool , and thanks !

function HtmlEscape()
  silent s/&/\&amp;/eg
  silent s/</\&lt;/eg
  silent s/>/\&gt;/eg
endfunction



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