bbedit stripping the "&" symbol from script result

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#1

I have thousands of web pages that I want to adjust using applescript and BBedit. Most of what I am doing is working just fine. However when running one particular event the end result has the “&” symbol stripped from the “&nbsp” parts of the string. The part of the script in question is like this:

set myFile to choose file
tell application “BBEdit”
open myFile
set myLinksTextToFind to “”

set myLinksText to "<TD><FONT size=\"3\"  face=\"Helvetica\" ><a href=\"http://www.google.com\" target=\"_top\">Home</a>     <a href=\"http://www.google.com/somepage.html\" target=\"_self\">Image Index</a>     <A href=\"mailto:info@google.com\">info@google.com</A><BR>

replace myLinksTextToFind using myLinksText searching in window 1 options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true}
save window 1
end tell

If I put in a “set the clipboard to myLinksText” I can paste the result in a new document and all works fine, it seems to be a problem going straight from script to bbedit.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Model: Mac G4
AppleScript: 2.1.1
Browser: Safari 419.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)

#2

Found an answer to this via trial and error and, of course, Google search.:lol:

The way to make the “&nbsp” to appear as a space in an html document and not as a literal piece of text is to change the search options from grep to literal. So, the final part of the script would read:

searching in window 1 options {search mode:literal, starting at top:true}

and not:

searching in window 1 options {search grep, starting at top:true}