in reply to Help with HTML::Entities - decode_entities

I think the leading underscore is necessary--best not to second guess the documents when you're having problems--and it seems to do it in place so you have to check the variable, not the return from the function. 

perl -MHTML::Entities -le '$s = "ÖH & HAÌ"; _decode_en
+tities($s, { amp => "&" }, 0); print $s'
-- 
ÖH & HAÌ

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Re^2: Help with HTML::Entities - decode_entities
by punch_card_don (Curate) on Jul 08, 2010 at 23:55 UTC
    Thanks, Mom, for the help.

    Operats in place - right- OK, so I took it out, like this: 

    _decode_entities($mystring, { amp => "&", 59 => ";" }, 0);
print $mystring;

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    but when $mystring = "Fred's shoe", I'm still getting "Fred's shoe" output.



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