method
unescapeHTML
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- Class:
CGI::Util
unescapeHTML(string)public
Unescape a string that has been HTML-escaped
CGI::unescapeHTML("Usage: foo "bar" <baz>") # => "Usage: foo \"bar\" <baz>"
# File lib/cgi/util.rb, line 43
def unescapeHTML(string)
return string unless string.include? '&'
enc = string.encoding
if enc != Encoding::UTF_8 && [Encoding::UTF_16BE, Encoding::UTF_16LE, Encoding::UTF_32BE, Encoding::UTF_32LE].include?(enc)
return string.gsub(Regexp.new('&(apos|amp|quot|gt|lt|#[0-9]+|#x[0-9A-Fa-f]+);'.encode(enc))) do
case $1.encode(Encoding::US_ASCII)
when 'apos' then "'".encode(enc)
when 'amp' then '&'.encode(enc)
when 'quot' then '"'.encode(enc)
when 'gt' then '>'.encode(enc)
when 'lt' then '<'.encode(enc)
when /\A#0*(\d+)\z/ then $1.to_i.chr(enc)
when /\A#x([0-9a-f]+)\z/ then $1.hex.chr(enc)
end
end
end
asciicompat = Encoding.compatible?(string, "a")
string.gsub(/&(apos|amp|quot|gt|lt|\#[0-9]+|\#[xX][0-9A-Fa-f]+);/) do
match = $1.dup
case match
when 'apos' then "'"
when 'amp' then '&'
when 'quot' then '"'
when 'gt' then '>'
when 'lt' then '<'
when /\A#0*(\d+)\z/
n = $1.to_i
if enc == Encoding::UTF_8 or
enc == Encoding::ISO_8859_1 && n < 256 or
asciicompat && n < 128
n.chr(enc)
else
"&##{$1};"
end
when /\A#x([0-9a-f]+)\z/
n = $1.hex
if enc == Encoding::UTF_8 or
enc == Encoding::ISO_8859_1 && n < 256 or
asciicompat && n < 128
n.chr(enc)
else
"&#x#{$1};"
end
else
"&#{match};"
end
end
end