Encoding All Entities

[Aarem]

Hi. I looked into HTML::Entities in CPAN, and I was wondering how you can encode every letter into an html entity. In tried the following, but it doesn't work!

use HTML::Entities;
encode_entities_numeric( "hi, this is my message.  Why does perl not encode this?", /./ )

 

[Deleted]

If you are trying to output the results then you need to..

use HTML::Entities;
[b]print[/b] encode_entities_numeric( "hi, this is my message.  Why does perl not encode this?", /./ );

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[Aarem]

I know this; my problem is that perl outputs it the same way as inputted.

 

[waiterm]

As far as I can see from the splurge on CPAN, HTML::Entities is not designed to encode every number/letter into an HTML entity. It is only designed to deal with any characters that aren't [0-9A-Za-z].

Also, encode_entities_numeric() isn't exported as standard in perl so try using:

use HTML::Entities qw(encode_entities_numeric);
$a = 'hi, this is my message.  Why does perl not encode this?';
$encoded = HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($a);
print $encoded."\n";

Rob Waite

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