Is there any function that converts
<a href="test.php"/>
to
< href="test.php"/>
It would be helpful if all html characters were converted in the similar manner.
Is there a function or library to do this?
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85answers:
3I need to do this with Actionscript! So, looking for a AS3 library.
Yeti
2010-05-05 08:47:23
+2
A:
var eaten:String = myString.replace(/&/g,'&').
replace(/</g,'<').
replace(/>/g,'>').
replace(/"/g,'"');
Delan Azabani
2010-05-05 08:47:27
I was actually looking for something which does that for all the symbols here: http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/webstuff/htmlsymbols.html
Yeti
2010-05-05 08:52:52
You don't need to. Those characters aren't parsed (only the above four are) and you should be able to use the direct UTF-8 without escaping them.
Delan Azabani
2010-05-05 09:01:04
MrKishi
2010-05-05 16:32:49
@M28 It's not, really, given the circunstances. He needs to replace _all_ the special characters, _String.replace(String, String)_ will replace only the first match.
MrKishi
2010-05-05 17:26:57
True. It seems to replace only the first (which I thought against). Updating the post with a regex...
Delan Azabani
2010-05-06 05:20:16
A:
It sounds like encodeURIComponent may be what you're after:
http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/package.html#encodeURIComponent%28%29
Andrew
2010-05-05 15:09:58
encodeURIComponent converts <a href="test.php"/> to **%3Ca%20href%3D%22test.php%22%2F%3E**. Oops!
Yeti
2010-05-05 15:59:44