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On 3/21/2024 2:19 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> I’m fond of writing things like
> 
> /*
>      A very simple HTML/XML entity-escape function--why isn’t this
>      part of the standard Java API?
> */
> 
> which involve less typing than
> 
> //
> //  A very simple HTML/XML entity-escape function--why isn’t this
> //  part of the standard Java API?
> //

Get yourself some Notepad++.

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