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decodeEntities ( text )

Convert HTML entities (example &#'64';) to text (In this case a @)

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Enzo Borri - Show more from this author http://borri.org

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Substitute ( text ; [ " " ; " " ] ; [ "!" ; "!" ] ; [ """ ; "\"" ] ; [ "#" ; "#" ] ; [ "$" ; "$" ] ; [ "%" ; "%" ] ; [ "&" ; "&" ] ; [ "'" ; "‘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`" ; "`" ] ; [ "a" ; "a" ] ; [ "b" ; "b" ] ; [ "c" ; "c" ] ; [ "d" ; "d" ] ; [ "e" ; "e" ] ; [ "f" ; "f" ] ; [ "g" ; "g" ] ; [ "h" ; "h" ] ; [ "i" ; "i" ] ; [ "j" ; "j" ] ; [ "k" ; "k" ] ; [ "l" ; "l" ] ; [ "m" ; "m" ] ; [ "n" ; "n" ] ; [ "o" ; "o" ] ; [ "p" ; "p" ] ; [ "q" ; "q" ] ; [ "r" ; "r" ] ; [ "s" ; "s" ] ; [ "t" ; "t" ] ; [ "u" ; "u" ] ; [ "v" ; "v" ] ; [ "w" ; "w" ] ; [ "x" ; "x" ] ; [ "y" ; "y" ] ; [ "z" ; "z" ] ; [ "{" ; "{" ] ; [ "|" ; "|" ] ; [ "}" ; "}" ] ; [ "~" ; "~" ] ) Click to copy

Getting email addresses from web pages, I found they were encoded using HTML entities (such as "&#'64';" instead than "@"). Using this function I'm now able to transform email addresses formatted like "john@doe.com" to their readable form like "john@doe.com"

 

Comments

		Jason Wood, Define Database Jul 24, 2020
hmm... the HTML entities appear to have gotten lost at some point...

		Jason Wood, Define Database Jul 24, 2020
hmm... the HTML entities appear to have gotten lost at some point...

		Enzo Borri Jul 24, 2020
Yes, Jason! Unfortunately I see something went wrong. Unfortunately I have not with me right now the original to try to paste the original code. :-(

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