decode - Expand HTML entities in a string

NAME

encode - Encode chars in a string using HTML entities

SYNOPSIS

 use HTML::Entities;

 $a = "V&aring;re norske tegn b&oslash;r &#230res";
 decode_entities($a);
 encode_entities($a, "\200-\377");

DESCRIPTION

The decode_entities() routine replaces valid HTML entities found in the string with the corresponding ISO-8859/1 character.

The encode_entities() routine replaces the characters specified by the second argument with their entity representation. The default set of characters to expand are control chars, high-bit chars and the '<', '&', '>' and '``' character.

Both routines modify the string passed in as the first argument and return it.

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

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

The module can also export the %char2entity and the %entity2char hashes which contains the mapping from all characters to the corresponding entities.

COPYRIGHT

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

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas