to \escape or not to escape - that is the question ( & AMPERSAND )

[admin4]

hello world,

thanks for your efforts:

this works:

cat test.sed.txt

"this"is"some"string

sed 's/\"/\&quot/g' test.sed.txt > output.txt;

cat output.txt

&quotthis&quotis&quotsome&quotstring

my tool will escape \" and \& in the future

https://dwaves.org/tools/escape/ <https://dwaves.org/tools/escape/>

thanks for the hint

(it is strange... when not escaping & it will not replace but ADD the
string 'quot' behind the " that is supposed to be replaced)

sed 's/\"/&quot/g' test.sed.txt > output.txt;

cat output.txt

"quotthis"quotis"quotsome"quotstring

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