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Recursive LAMBDA to replace characters by specific substitutes from a lookup table

The goal is to iterate through rows of the character table and replace each character with it’s substitute.

The character table in this example is ={"&","&amp;";"<","&lt;";">","&gt;";"'","&apos;";"""","&quot;"}, or:
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Formula:

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=LAMBDA(XML,Pos,
LET(
Cls,{"&","&amp;";"<","&lt;";">","&gt;";"'","&apos;";"""","&quot;"},
Row,IF(ISOMITTED(Pos),ROWS(Cls),Pos),
Crf,INDEX(Cls,Row,1),
Crr,INDEX(Cls,Row,2),
Sub,SUBSTITUTE(XML,Crf,Crr),
IF(Row=0,XML,ENCODEXML(Sub,Row-1))
))

Expected result for =ENCODEXML("sl < dk & jf") would be sl &lt; dk &amp jf
I’m getting #VALUE! error instead.

>Solution :

  1. You need to have an exit on the recursive:
=LAMBDA(XML,Pos,
LET(
Cls,{"&","&amp;";"<","&lt;";">","&gt;";"'","&apos;";"""","&quot;"},
Row,IF(ISOMITTED(Pos),ROWS(Cls),Pos),
Crf,INDEX(Cls,Row,1),
Crr,INDEX(Cls,Row,2),
Sub,SUBSTITUTE(XML,Crf,Crr),
IF(Row>1,ENCODEXML(Sub,Row-1),Sub)
))
  1. You need to add the , in the call:
=ENCODEXML("sl < dk & jf",)

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