Yachtman,
Check out http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/CGI.html#M000527
(It worked with 2.2 also)
>> ugly = CGI::escapeHTML('<BR><A HREF="url"></A>')
=> "<BR><A HREF="url"></A>"
>> print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, "A", "IMG")
<BR><A HREF="url"></A>=> nil
>> print CGI::unescapeElement(ugly, "A", "IMG", "BR")
<BR><A HREF="url"></A>=> nil
There might be a higher level function too, but this shows you how you
might use this directly
Al
On Feb 9, 7:34 pm, yachtman <[email protected]> wrote:
> This might be such a stupid simple question, so forgive me--I did
> search the forum and elsewhere and couldn't find the answer...
>
> I have an HTML text string that formats nicely on a web page:
>
> s = "Mom & Dad" => "Mom & Dad"
>
> How do I convert s to just ascii characters, ie. "Mom & Dad"?
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