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how to auto escape special char in code block
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how to auto escape special char in code block

frakassfrakass Member

in the some code bock (html), if "some code" has special chars included such as "<", ">", they will be resolved as HTML tags.

How to auto escape these special chars in code block? thanks

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  • blackblack Member
    edited April 2022

    < is usually encoded with &lt; and > is usually encoded as &gt;. You can also use &#60; &#62;.

    You can run a sed command to replace. For example:

    sed "s/</\&lt;/g" to replace all occurrences of < with &lt;. You can also specify line numbers to replace in sed so sed "3,5s/</\&lt;/g" would replace all occurrences of < with &lt; between lines 3-5. The -i option may be useful if you're dealing with files.

    Thanked by 1frakass
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