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Created November 2, 2010 17:12
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Faster checkPlain()?
function checkPlain(str) {
var r = new RegExp('(&)|(\")|(<)|(>)|([^&\"<>]*)', 'g');
var replacements = ["&amp;", "&quot;", "&lt;", "&gt;"];
var retval = '';
var match = r.exec(str);
while (match[0] != "") {
for (var i = 1; i < match.length; ++i) {
if (match[i] != undefined) {
retval += (i == 5 ? match[i] : replacements[i-1]);
}
}
match = r.exec(str);
}
return retval;
}
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