How to remove special characters? (ie. &)

Rails
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This might be such a stupid simple question, so forgive me–I did
search the forum and elsewhere and couldn’t find the answer…

I have an HTML text string that formats nicely on a web page:

s = “Mom & Dad” => “Mom & Dad”

How do I convert s to just ascii characters, ie. “Mom & Dad”?

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Yachtman,

Check out http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/CGI.html#M000527
(It worked with 2.2 also)

ugly = CGI::escapeHTML(‘
’)
=> “<BR><A HREF="url"></A>”

print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, “A”, “IMG”)
<BR>=> nil

print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, “A”, “IMG”, “BR”)

=> nil

There might be a higher level function too, but this shows you how you
might use this directly

Al

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yachtman wrote:

This might be such a stupid simple question, so forgive me–I did
search the forum and elsewhere and couldn’t find the answer…

I have an HTML text string that formats nicely on a web page:

s = “Mom & Dad” => “Mom & Dad”

How do I convert s to just ascii characters, ie. “Mom & Dad”?

I haven’t tried this, but it looks like a robust solution that might
work for you:
http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/

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Of course, you can’t use this to handle all possible encoded strings

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:29 PM, stretch [email protected] wrote:

<BR>=> nil

This might be such a stupid simple question, so forgive me–I did
search the forum and elsewhere and couldn’t find the answer…

I have an HTML text string that formats nicely on a web page:

s = “Mom & Dad” => “Mom & Dad”

How do I convert s to just ascii characters, ie. “Mom & Dad”?

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