Re: [cl-ppcre-devel] Bug?

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:17:12 +0100, "Dave Pawson" dave.pawson@gmail.com wrote:

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(defun msg(message) (format t "~%~A~%" message) )

(defun cleanup (line) "Replace < and & with entities" (msg (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all "&" line "&amp;")) (msg (cl-ppcre:regex-replace-all "<" line "&lt;")) )

The first message replaces & The second shows that &amp; has been changed back to &

You're applying REGEX-REPLACE-ALL to LINE in both cases. You probably want to apply it to the result of the first invocation in the second case instead.