library for doing html escaping...

[Sean T Allen]

ruby forge drives me crazy trying to find things...

need a library that provides simple functionality of take a string and
doing html escaping

" to "
& to &

etc.

suggestions....

[Phlip]

Sean T Allen wrote:

> ruby forge drives me crazy trying to find things...

Sometimes what you seek was obvious to everyone else, so they didn't
excessively document it. Sorry.

> need a library that provides simple functionality of take a string and
> doing html escaping
>
> " to "
> & to &

require 'cgi'
...

def test_escapeHTML()
scream = CGI::escapeHTML(">scream<")
assert_equal(scream, '&gt;scream&lt;')
end

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Phlip
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[Ara.T....@noaa.gov]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Sean T Allen wrote:

> --------------090403080404050404020301
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

it's builtin to ruby:

harp:~ > irb -r cgi
irb(main):001:0> CGI::escapeHTML %Q( " )
=> " &quot; "
irb(main):002:0> CGI::escapeHTML %Q( & )
=> " &amp; "
irb(main):003:0> CGI::escapeHTML %Q( < )
=> " &lt; "
irb(main):004:0> CGI::escapeHTML %Q( > )
=> " &gt; "

cheers.
-a
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