Technical question

[mapsedge]

Is there a regular expression that would allow me to replace any character above ASCII-128 in a string with the HTML entity equiv, an in:

replace in {string}:  ascii-X with &#X; where X between 128 and 255

It would save a nested loop if I could figure out how to do it in one statement.

Comments

[akaashben.livejournal.com]

I don't see how to do it without a loop, since you have to examine each character in turn to determine its ascii value.

Even if you could convert the entire string to its component ascii values before looking at it, you would still have to break it up in to 3-digit chunks and examine each one before converting it back. Running a regex search on 3-digit chunks of that would very likely mess it all up.