Question

I need to split a string by semicolon ignoring the semicolons that may come as HTML characters.
For instance, given the string:

id=com.google.android;keywords=Android&#59;Operating System&#59;Phone;versions=Gingerbread&#59;ICS&#59;JB

I need to split it into:

id = com.google.android
keywords=Android&#59;Operating System&#59;Phone
versions=Gingerbread&#59;ICS&#59;JB

any ideia how to do this?

Answer 1

Since the HTML entites have only two or three numbers between the ‘&#’ and ‘;’ I used the following regex:

(?<!&#\d{2,3});