Of course, you can't use this to handle all possible encoded strings

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM, stretch <stre...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Yachtman,
>
> Check out http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/CGI.html#M000527
> (It worked with 2.2 also)
>
> >> ugly = CGI::escapeHTML('<BR><A HREF="url"></A>')
> => "&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&quot;url&quot;&gt;&lt;/A&gt;"
>
> >> print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, "A", "IMG")
> &lt;BR&gt;<A HREF="url"></A>=> nil
>
> >> print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, "A", "IMG", "BR")
> <BR><A HREF="url"></A>=> nil
>
> There might be a higher level function too, but this shows you how you
> might use this directly
>
> Al
>
> On Feb 9, 7:34 pm, yachtman <carson.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This might be such a stupid simple question, so forgive me--I did
> > search the forum and elsewhere and couldn't find the answer...
> >
> > I have an HTML text string that formats nicely on a web  page:
> >
> > s = "Mom &amp; Dad"    => "Mom & Dad"
> >
> > How do I convert s to just ascii characters, ie. "Mom & Dad"?
> >
>


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