From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-09-13T09:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Adventures in html decoding.


Simon Kr�ger wrote:
> > [...]
> > Which lead to...
> >
> > ===
> > require 'cgi'
> > outfile = File.new(ARGV[1], File::CREAT|File::WRONLY|File::EXCL)
> > IO.readlines(ARGV[0]).each{ |line|
> >     outfile.puts CGI::unescapeHTML(line)
> > }
> > outfile.close
> > ===
> >
> > Which is much simpler; just some file handling stuff around
> > the unescapeHTML function. Maybe later I'll try something with
> > rubywebdialogs that'll let me paste into a web browser window
> > and get back results the way I'd like to be able to do...
> >
> > The moral of this story is, html obfuscation sucks.
> >
> > (What? That's *not* the moral? Oh well...)
> >
> > -Morgan
>
> the moral is, there is always a simpler way :)
>
> require 'cgi'
> open(ARGV[1], 'w') do |f|
>    f.write(CGI::unescapeHTML(IO.read(ARGV[0])))
> end
>
> cheers
>
> Simon

Simpler still:

require 'cgi'
open(ARGV.pop, 'w') { |f|
  f.write(CGI.unescapeHTML(ARGF.read))
}