[Rails] Re: Method to remove html escape characters from strings

[Freddy Andersen]

If found this little snap that I got in my application_helper

  def remove_html_tags(str)
str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
  end

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[Rails] Re: Method to remove html escape characters from strings

[Karl Baum]

That worked.  Thanks!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Philip Hallstrom  wrote:

>
> > Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
> > Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:
> >
> > => "hello & goodbye"
> >>> "hello & goodbye".gsub(/&/, "&")
> > => "hello & goodbye"
> >
> > but I figured there might be a better way.
>
> require 'CGI'>> require 'CGI'
> => true
>  >> CGI::unescapeHTML("hello & goodbye "bar" ")
> => "hello & goodbye "bar" "
>
> >
>

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[Rails] Re: Method to remove html escape characters from strings

[Philip Hallstrom]

> Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
> Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:
>
> => "hello & goodbye"
>>> "hello & goodbye".gsub(/&/, "&")
> => "hello & goodbye"
>
> but I figured there might be a better way.

require 'CGI'>> require 'CGI'
=> true
 >> CGI::unescapeHTML("hello & goodbye "bar" ")
=> "hello & goodbye "bar" "

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