On 19 January 2012 10:01, Sean Conner
<sean@conman.org> wrote:
An easy way to do that is
res = res:gsub("%&","&")
& doesn't need to be escaped in lua patterns; and in fact: shouldn't.
res = res:gsub("&","&")
will do
As a note; other special entities need to be escaped too:
res = res:gsub("[<>&\"]",{ ["<"] = "<" , [">"]=">" , ["&"]="&" , ["\""] = """ } )
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