From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-05-31T02:08:30+09:00
Subject: Re: how to generate ascii code?

Heesob Park wrote:
> irb(main):001:0> require 'cgi'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> CGI.unescapeHTML("WE&#76;COME")
> => "WELCOME"
> irb(main):003:0> CGI.unescapeHTML("WE&#x00ff;COME")
> => "WE\377COME"

Actually CGI.escape and CGI.unescape are such short methods that you can 
copy and paste them from the Ruby source code rather than requiring the 
whole CGI kit and caboodle. At least, that's what I do. ;-)

def URLencode(string)
  string.gsub(/([^ a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+)/n) do
    '%' + $1.unpack('H2' * $1.size).join('%').upcase
  end.tr(' ', '+')
end

def URLdecode(string)
   string.tr('+', ' ').gsub(/((?:%[0-9a-fA-F]{2})+)/n) do
    [$1.delete('%')].pack('H*')
   end
end

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