From: Bernard Kenik <renard@...>
Date: 2008-09-09T08:24:14+09:00
Subject: Re: convert ascii codes in a string to a string of character

Mark Thomas wrote:
> On Sep 7, 10:19�pm, smitty <cleesmith2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a more efficient way to convert a string such as
>> "&#97;&#98;&#99;&#100;&#101;&#102;" to "abcdef" ?
> 
> CGI::unescapeHTML(str)

irb(main):029:0> a="&#97;&#98;&#99;&#100;&#101;&#102;"
=> "&#97;&#98;&#99;&#100;&#101;&#102;"
irb(main):030:0> s = a.scan(/\d+/).collect { |ch| ch.to_i.chr }.join()
=> "abcdef"


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