On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:21:53 +0000 Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote:
> John asked me off-list how to add a new entry. It wasn't immediately > obvious to me that he'd asked this originally, but now I read again > I suppose "so I can edit" implies needing to go the other way too. > > I'd do something like piping what I wanted to encode through: <lots snipped here> > Perhaps that would be useful in not disturbing your editing flow. > > If you don't do this sort of thing a lot then you could just search > the web for any of what must be thousands of online "convert to > numeric html entities" web forms, e.g.: > > http://www.texaswebdevelopers.com/examples/xmlentities/xml_entities.asp Thanks Andy, I don't suppose I'll get lots of requests all at once but I could since people now know the site now has a new "webmaster" and may take advantage of it. I will be editing the file via ssh and using vim (since that is the only unix editor I know anything about) so your bits of perl code should solve my problem. I'll practice on my test system here before trying it on 'real' files! -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
