Quick decode_entities Question

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

Hello Monks, I've been using encode_entities very successfully, it seemed better at the time, but I've been inserting my data into a db with encode_entities. Displaying them on a website was as simple as just select column from table. Now however, I would like to use that same data on a device that is not web, AKA doesnt render entities. I tried to do the following:

my $string = "foo &nbsp; bar";
$string = decode_entities($string);
print $string
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But my data just comes back as my input, what I'm I doing wrong here?

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Re: Quick decode_entities Question by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 13, 2011 at 19:10 UTC
Personally, I get `Undefined subroutine &main::decode_entities called at -e line 2.` [download] Adding `use HTML::Entities;` provides the missing `decode_entities`, but you must be using something else if you're having the problem you describe.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Quick decode_entities Question by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 13, 2011 at 19:11 UTC
What you have typed in there actually doesn't produce `foo bar`? Is that the actual code that replicates the problem? Because it doesn't cause me any trouble at all, assuming I `use HTML::Entities;` Similarly, `say decode_entities( encode_entities( 'this and that' ) );` produces exactly 'this and that' for me. Is it possible that in reducing the example to minimal code you eliminated the problem without realizing it? Because I can't duplicate it with that code. If the above code is giving you trouble I think we're going to need to know a little more about the rest of the neighborhood. That snippet cannot fail all by itself. What modules and pragmas are in use? Is there a character-set mismatch? Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Quick decode_entities Question by Anonymous Monk on Nov 29, 2012 at 15:28 UTC
for me encode is working but decode is giving same error :( !!!	[reply]
Re^3: Quick decode_entities Question by Anonymous Monk on Nov 29, 2012 at 15:39 UTC
the problem is on line 42, naturally	[reply]