R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
I am trying to change occurrences of & into &.
Are you sure that's what you want to do? In an HTML context, it's more
common to do that only when & is not already the beginning of a
character entity, such as '&' or '"' or '<' etc.
s/&(?!(?:[a-z]+|#[0-9]+);)/&/g;
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