lib::HTML::EntiUser(Contributed Perl Documelib::HTML::Entities(3)NAME
decode - Expand HTML entities in a string
encode - Encode chars in a string using HTML entities
SYNOPSIS
use HTML::Entities;
$a = "Våre norske tegn bør æres";
decode_entities($a);
encode_entities($a, "\200-\377");
DESCRIPTION
The decode_entities() routine replaces valid HTML entities
found in the string with the corresponding ISO-8859/1
character.
The encode_entities() routine replaces the characters
specified by the second argument with their entity
representation. The default set of characters to expand
are control chars, high-bit chars and the '<', '&', '>'
and '"' character.
Both routines modify the string passed in as the first
argument and return it.
If you prefer not to import these routines into your
namespace you can call them as:
use HTML::Entities ();
$encoded = HTML::Entities::encode($a);
$decoded = HTML::Entities::decode($a);
The module can also export the %char2entity and the
%entity2char hashes which contains the mapping from all
characters to the corresponding entities.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1995-1997 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
24/Aug/1997 perl 5.005, patch 03 1
