HTML::Entities(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::Entities(3)

NAME
       HTML::Entities - Encode or decode strings with HTML entities

SYNOPSIS
        use HTML::Entities;

        $a = "Våre norske tegn bør æres";
        decodeentities($a);
        encodeentities($a, "\200-\377");

       For example, this:

        $input = "vis-a-vis Beyonce's naieve\npapier-mache resume";
        print encodeentities($input), "\n"

       Prints this out:

        vis-à-vis Beyoncé's naïve
        papier-mâché résumé

DESCRIPTION
       This module deals with encoding and decoding of strings with HTML
       character entities.  The module provides the following functions:

       decodeentities( $string, ... )
           This routine replaces HTML entities found in the $string with the
           corresponding Unicode character.  Under perl 5.6 and earlier only
           characters in the Latin-1 range are replaced. Unrecognized entities
           are left alone.

           If multiple strings are provided as argument they are each decoded
           separately and the same number of strings are returned.

           If called in void context the arguments are decoded in-place.

           This routine is exported by default.

       decodeentities( $string, \%entity2char )
       decodeentities( $string, \%entity2char, $expandprefix )
           This will in-place replace HTML entities in $string.  The
           %entity2char hash must be provided.  Named entities not found in
           the %entity2char hash are left alone.  Numeric entities are
           expanded unless their value overflow.

           The keys in %entity2char are the entity names to be expanded and
           their values are what they should expand into.  The values do not
           have to be single character strings.  If a key has ";" as suffix,
           then occurrences in $string are only expanded if properly
           terminated with ";".  Entities without ";" will be expanded
           regardless of how they are terminated for compatiblity with how
           common browsers treat entities in the Latin-1 range.

           If $expandprefix is TRUE then entities without trailing ";" in
           %entity2char will even be expanded as a prefix of a longer
           unrecognized name.  The longest matching name in %entity2char will
           be used. This is mainly present for compatibility with an MSIE
           misfeature.

              $string = "foo bar";
              decodeentities($string, { nb => "@", nbsp => "\xA0" }, 1);
              print $string;  # will print "foo bar"

           This routine is exported by default.

       encodeentities( $string )
       encodeentities( $string, $unsafechars )
           This routine replaces unsafe characters in $string with their
           entity representation. A second argument can be given to specify
           which characters to consider unsafe (i.e., which to escape). The
           default set of characters to encode are control chars, high-bit
           chars, and the "<", "&", ">", "'" and """ characters.  But this,
           for example, would encode just the "<", "&", ">", and """
           characters:

             $encoded = encodeentities($input, '<>&"');

           This routine is exported by default.

       encodeentitiesnumeric( $string )
       encodeentitiesnumeric( $string, $unsafechars )
           This routine works just like encodeentities, except that the
           replacement entities are always "&#xhexnum;" and never "&entname;".
           For example, "encodeentities("r\xF4le")" returns "rôle", but
           "encodeentitiesnumeric("r\xF4le")" returns "rôle".

           This routine is not exported by default.  But you can always export
           it with "use HTML::Entities qw(encodeentitiesnumeric);" or even
           "use HTML::Entities qw(:DEFAULT encodeentitiesnumeric);"

       All these routines modify the string passed as the first argument, if
       called in a void context.  In scalar and array contexts, the encoded or
       decoded string is returned (without changing the input string).

       If you prefer not to import these routines into your namespace, you can
       call them as:

         use HTML::Entities ();
         $decoded = HTML::Entities::decode($a);
         $encoded = HTML::Entities::encode($a);
         $encoded = HTML::Entities::encodenumeric($a);

       The module can also export the %char2entity and the %entity2char
       hashes, which contain the mapping from all characters to the
       corresponding entities (and vice versa, respectively).

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1995-2006 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.8.8                       2006-03-22                 HTML::Entities(3)