From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-04-30T05:14:28+09:00
Subject: Re: library for doing html escaping...

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

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> 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....
>

it's builtin to ruby:

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

cheers.
-a
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