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Siva K
Siva K

Reputation: 4968

Problem with & and double quotes in my Android app

in my app I am facing following two problems

  1. I am trying to show some text from strings.xml file stored in res/values folder. The problem is whenever I enter the & it shows an error as follows:

    Multiple annotations found at this line:
    - The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
    - error: Error parsing XML: not well-formed (invalid token)

When I remove it the error gets cleared. how to use such special characters in my app

  1. When I click a button in my app it hits an url and in return I am getting an return data as follows 

    <img src="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/test.php%3Fcode_hash%3Da8c159f35af&amp;guid=ON"/>

I want to get this url removing the img src="

I tried using the replacewith("","");

But here I am unable to give the " within the double quotes.

How to solve the above issues?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 15453

Answers (3)

Farray
Farray

Reputation: 8538

To use the symbol & in your strings.xml file, you need to use the appropriate XML character entity.
For ampersand, use &amp;.

Upvotes: 0

source.rar
source.rar

Reputation: 8090

In XML strings for & (ampersand) you need to use &amp; and quotes (single or double) need to be escaped,

<string name="with_amp">I, Me &amp; Myself</string>
<string name="with_quotes>Single quote \' and Double quotes \"</string>

Upvotes: 54

Jetti Madhu
Jetti Madhu

Reputation: 1068

Instead of & you have to use & check in the following statements

test&

<string name="url">http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/test.php%3Fcode_hash%3Da8c159f35af&amp;guid=ON</string>

Upvotes: 0

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