Unescaping HTML Escapes

devmage has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, I have some text with HTML escaped characters in it like í is í and ó is ó. They are all characters in the Spanish alphabet. I need to convert them back to ascii and was looking for a perl module that did it but havn't found one yet. Can anyone please suggest something?

Thanks!

Devmage

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Re: Unescaping HTML Escapes by antirice (Priest) on Oct 15, 2003 at 16:09 UTC
Check out the decode_entities sub of HTML::Entities. Hope this helps. antirice The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1	[reply]
Re: Unescaping HTML Escapes by Ovid (Cardinal) on Oct 15, 2003 at 16:10 UTC
Use HTML::Entities: `use HTML::Entities 'decode_entities'; decode_entities($some_text);` [download] Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Unescaping HTML Escapes by devmage (Initiate) on Oct 15, 2003 at 16:15 UTC
Perfect! You rock. You have no idea how much time I spent looking for that. Unfortunately its not an easy search subject :) Devmage	[reply]
Re: Unescaping HTML Escapes by etcshadow (Priest) on Oct 15, 2003 at 20:22 UTC
Of course, you can't convert them to ASCII, because they aren't ASCII characters. ASCII is only the characters below 127. Either you need to understand character encoding a little better, or you made a typo (or both). Of course, HTML::Entities seems to handle ISO-8859-1 and Unicode properly, so that's good. ------------ :Wq Not an editor command: Wq	[reply]