dojo master regexp your arse, glasshoppa!
Dojo Toolkit and Regexp monster child runs amok. Citizens terrified. Where will it stop??
I want to put ‘>=2 ‘ in a combobox.
Dojo master say no.
In fact, it seems to be escaping any even vaguely ‘dodgy’ characters. I can’t put < in, fair enough. I can’t put & in. I tried ‘<‘ even. It converts that to & lt; but it won’t resolve anything with an ampersand in either.
This bug, and yes I say it IS a bug, is bugging the arse off me.
bloody wordpress is at it too! Leave me the hell alone! What is wrong with you people?!?!
Posted on January 12th, 2008 under geeky, utter drivel • 
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January 13th, 2008 at 23:26
You can enter it as an escaped character sequence.
‘\x3C’ is less-than, if you like hexadecimal (I do).
http://www.c-point.com/javascript_tutorial/special_characters.htm
January 13th, 2008 at 23:42
If dojo didn’t ignore escaped characters, that would be so kewl.
put ‘\x3c 70′ into a select option, and you get ‘\x3c 70′ rendered in your combo box. Nice.
It ignores me. How rude!
There must be some special dojo thing.
January 14th, 2008 at 16:23
Ah.
It’s been fixed in the nightlies. I was hoping that this one line fix would do it:
http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/5501
but it seems you need the full on latest greatest version..
http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/changeset/11949