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decoder from scriptygoddess
September 20, 2002

I've been meaning to blog this for a while: the ScriptyGoddess DeCoder bookmarklet - nifty for converting "<" and ">" into "&lt;" and "&gt;" when writing HTML code into my Tips entries so it displays properly.

Update 09.22.02: I wanted to also convert " to &quot;, so, since I don't know how to actually make a bookmarklet (sigh), I just edited the properties on the DeCoder link in my toolbar.

This is the new stuff I pasted in:

javascript:void(strSelection=document.selection.createRange().text);void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('<','g'),'&lt;'));void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('>','g'),'&gt;'));void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('\"','g'),'&quot;'));void(document.selection.createRange().text=strSelection);

In case it isn't clear - that's a \ followed by a double quote, then a single quote.

Oh hell, I couldn't stop there, could I? Let's convert those & to &amp; too:

javascript:void(strSelection=document.selection.createRange().text);void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('&','g'),'&amp;'));void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('<','g'),'&lt;'));void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('>','g'),'&gt;'));void(strSelection=strSelection.replace(new RegExp('\"','g'),'&quot;'));void(document.selection.createRange().text=strSelection);

You have to put the & to &amp; conversion first, otherwise, once the remaining characters get converted, their &s get converted too.

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Comments

hey,

I was wondering if you can do a code conversion for me. Hopefully you know perl.
I have this code:

and i want that converted to work in perl
is there any chance you can help me or know a place i can go to get it converted?

Thanks for your help.

by EC | 12.19.03 11:16 AM

oops apperntly I cant post code:

"
function cleanCAPS(str) {
capsallowed = 3; // Lowercase if more than ## CAPS in a row
do {
eval("re = /([A-Z]{" + (capsallowed+1) + ",})/g;");
myArray = str.match(re);
if (myArray) {
eval("re = /" + myArray[0] + "/;");
str = str.replace(re, ""+myArray[0].toLowerCase());
}
} while (myArray);
return str;
"
hope this time it goes thru.

by EC | 12.19.03 11:18 AM

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