From: Phlip <phlip_cpp@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T04:49:29+09:00
Subject: Re: library for doing html escaping...

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 &quot;
> & to &amp;

require 'cgi'
....

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

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