That worked.  Thanks!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
> > Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:
> >
> > => "hello &amp; goodbye"
> >>> "hello &amp; goodbye".gsub(/&amp;/, "&")
> > => "hello & goodbye"
> >
> > but I figured there might be a better way.
>
> require 'CGI'>> require 'CGI'
> => true
>  >> CGI::unescapeHTML("hello &amp; goodbye &quot;bar&quot; &lt;baz&gt;")
> => "hello & goodbye "bar" <baz>"
>
> >
>

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