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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: PATCH: kspread html export
From:       shaheed <srhaque () iee ! org>
Date:       2001-07-30 2:48:16
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On Sunday 29 July 2001 5:33 pm, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 10:32:18PM +0200, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Just as a note, you could also write it:
> >
> >   text.replace(QRegExp("&"), "&amp;")
> >        .replace(QRegExp("<"), "&lt;")
> >        .replace(QRegExp(">"), "&gt;");
>
> I can imagine this being pretty slow. Why use a regular expression,
> if all you want to do is replacing one character with some others?
> Especially doing this three times. Better iterate over all characters
> of `text' and replace all the &,<,> manually.

Pretty much all the filters have this code. While it is certainly not going 
to be fast, I didn't consider the obfuscation of the alternatives worth the 
bother for the MsWord filter.

Warning: I'm only writing this note because its too hot to sleep, and because 
I have spoken to Carsten for a while :-)
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