I use this regex on some input,
[^a-zA-Z0-9@#]
However this ends up removing lots of html special characters within the input, such as
227;, #1606;, #1588; (i had to remove the & prefix so that it wouldn't show up as the actual value..)
is there a way that I can convert them to their values so that it will satisfy the regexp expression? I also have no idea why the text decided to be so big.