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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting What was wrong ??? ksh Post 99818 by DogDay on Tuesday 21st of February 2006 07:50:33 PM
Old 02-21-2006
No it has to do with the pipe "|" symbols in the strings.

It is confusing the test. I don't know a way around it though. I've tried it myself with double quotes and single quotes around the strings but it still fails.

Perhaps perl is capable or there is a test in ksh I am just not aware of.
 

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HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)						 1						HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)

htmlspecialchars_decode - Convert special HTML entities back to characters

SYNOPSIS
string htmlspecialchars_decode (string $string, [int $flags = ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401]) DESCRIPTION
This function is the opposite of htmlspecialchars(3). It converts special HTML entities back to characters. The converted entities are: &amp;, &quot; (when ENT_NOQUOTES is not set), &#039; (when ENT_QUOTES is set), &lt; and &gt;. PARAMETERS
o $string - The string to decode. o $flags - A bitmask of one or more of the following flags, which specify how to handle quotes and which document type to use. The default is ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401. Available $flags constants +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Constant Name | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | | | | ENT_COMPAT | | | | | | | Will convert double-quotes and leave single- | | | quotes alone. | | | | | | | | ENT_QUOTES | | | | | | | Will convert both double and single quotes. | | | | | | | |ENT_NOQUOTES | | | | | | | Will leave both double and single quotes uncon- | | | verted. | | | | | | | | ENT_HTML401 | | | | | | | Handle code as HTML 4.01. | | | | | | | | ENT_XML1 | | | | | | | Handle code as XML 1. | | | | | | | | ENT_XHTML | | | | | | | Handle code as XHTML. | | | | | | | | ENT_HTML5 | | | | | | | Handle code as HTML 5. | | | | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------+ RETURN VALUES
Returns the decoded string. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.4.0 | | | | | | | The constants ENT_HTML401, ENT_XML1, ENT_XHTML | | | and ENT_HTML5 were added. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 A htmlspecialchars_decode(3) example <?php $str = "<p>this -&gt; &quot;</p> "; echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str); // note that here the quotes aren't converted echo htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_NOQUOTES); ?> The above example will output: <p>this -> "</p> <p>this -> &quot;</p> SEE ALSO
htmlspecialchars(3), html_entity_decode(3), get_html_translation_table(3). PHP Documentation Group HTMLSPECIALCHARS_DECODE(3)
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