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Asked: 2026-06-17T23:58:07+00:00

I have a test string like : my $input = testing &test ₨; my

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I have a test string like :

my $input = "testing &test ₨";
my $output = HTML::Entities::encode_entities($str,"<>&\"'");

The desired output is

testing &amp;test &#8360;

But HTML::Entities::encode_entities is encoding this into 

testing &amp;test &amp;#8360;

To summarize, I want the HTML::Entities to encode the “&” character only if it does not represent an HTML entity number.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to decode the string first, then encode it:

    #!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict; use warnings; use v5.10;
use HTML::Entities ();
my $input = "testing &test &#8360;";
$input = HTML::Entities::encode( HTML::Entities::decode( $input ) );
say $input;

    The result is

    testing &amp;test &#x20A8;

    20A8 is the hexadecimal version of 8360.

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