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.IX Title "HTML::Entities 3"
.TH HTML::Entities 3 "2013-03-25" "perl v5.16.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
HTML::Entities \- Encode or decode strings with HTML entities
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 1
\& use HTML::Entities;
\&
\& $a = "V&aring;re norske tegn b&oslash;r &#230res";
\& decode_entities($a);
\& encode_entities($a, "\e200\-\e377");
.Ve
.PP
For example, this:
.PP
.Vb 2
\& $input = "vis\-a\*`\-vis Beyonce\*'\*(Aqs nai\*:ve\enpapier\-ma\*^che\*' re\*'sume\*'";
\& print encode_entities($input), "\en"
.Ve
.PP
Prints this out:
.PP
.Vb 2
\& vis\-&agrave;\-vis Beyonc&eacute;\*(Aqs na&iuml;ve
\& papier\-m&acirc;ch&eacute; r&eacute;sum&eacute;
.Ve
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module deals with encoding and decoding of strings with \s-1HTML\s0
character entities.  The module provides the following functions:
.ie n .IP "decode_entities( $string, ... )" 4
.el .IP "decode_entities( \f(CW$string\fR, ... )" 4
.IX Item "decode_entities( $string, ... )"
This routine replaces \s-1HTML\s0 entities found in the \f(CW$string\fR with the
corresponding Unicode character.  Unrecognized entities are left alone.
.Sp
If multiple strings are provided as argument they are each decoded
separately and the same number of strings are returned.
.Sp
If called in void context the arguments are decoded in-place.
.Sp
This routine is exported by default.
.ie n .IP "_decode_entities( $string, \e%entity2char )" 4
.el .IP "_decode_entities( \f(CW$string\fR, \e%entity2char )" 4
.IX Item "_decode_entities( $string, %entity2char )"
.PD 0
.ie n .IP "_decode_entities( $string, \e%entity2char, $expand_prefix )" 4
.el .IP "_decode_entities( \f(CW$string\fR, \e%entity2char, \f(CW$expand_prefix\fR )" 4
.IX Item "_decode_entities( $string, %entity2char, $expand_prefix )"
.PD
This will in-place replace \s-1HTML\s0 entities in \f(CW$string\fR.  The \f(CW%entity2char\fR
hash must be provided.  Named entities not found in the \f(CW%entity2char\fR
hash are left alone.  Numeric entities are expanded unless their value
overflow.
.Sp
The keys in \f(CW%entity2char\fR 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 \*(L";\*(R" as suffix,
then occurrences in \f(CW$string\fR are only expanded if properly terminated
with \*(L";\*(R".  Entities without \*(L";\*(R" will be expanded regardless of how
they are terminated for compatibility with how common browsers treat
entities in the Latin\-1 range.
.Sp
If \f(CW$expand_prefix\fR is \s-1TRUE\s0 then entities without trailing \*(L";\*(R" in
\&\f(CW%entity2char\fR will even be expanded as a prefix of a longer
unrecognized name.  The longest matching name in \f(CW%entity2char\fR will be
used. This is mainly present for compatibility with an \s-1MSIE\s0
misfeature.
.Sp
.Vb 3
\&   $string = "foo&nbspbar";
\&   _decode_entities($string, { nb => "@", nbsp => "\exA0" }, 1);
\&   print $string;  # will print "foo\ bar"
.Ve
.Sp
This routine is exported by default.
.ie n .IP "encode_entities( $string )" 4
.el .IP "encode_entities( \f(CW$string\fR )" 4
.IX Item "encode_entities( $string )"
.PD 0
.ie n .IP "encode_entities( $string, $unsafe_chars )" 4
.el .IP "encode_entities( \f(CW$string\fR, \f(CW$unsafe_chars\fR )" 4
.IX Item "encode_entities( $string, $unsafe_chars )"
.PD
This routine replaces unsafe characters in \f(CW$string\fR with their entity
representation. A second argument can be given to specify which characters to
consider unsafe.  The unsafe characters is specified using the regular
expression character class syntax (what you find within brackets in regular
expressions).
.Sp
The default set of characters to encode are control chars, high-bit chars, and
the \f(CW\*(C`<\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`&\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`>\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`\*(Aq\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`"\*(C'\fR characters.  But this,
for example, would encode \fIjust\fR the \f(CW\*(C`<\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`&\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`>\*(C'\fR, and \f(CW\*(C`"\*(C'\fR characters:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&  $encoded = encode_entities($input, \*(Aq<>&"\*(Aq);
.Ve
.Sp
and this would only encode non-plain ascii:
.Sp
.Vb 1
\&  $encoded = encode_entities($input, \*(Aq^\en\ex20\-\ex25\ex27\-\ex7e\*(Aq);
.Ve
.Sp
This routine is exported by default.
.ie n .IP "encode_entities_numeric( $string )" 4
.el .IP "encode_entities_numeric( \f(CW$string\fR )" 4
.IX Item "encode_entities_numeric( $string )"
.PD 0
.ie n .IP "encode_entities_numeric( $string, $unsafe_chars )" 4
.el .IP "encode_entities_numeric( \f(CW$string\fR, \f(CW$unsafe_chars\fR )" 4
.IX Item "encode_entities_numeric( $string, $unsafe_chars )"
.PD
This routine works just like encode_entities, except that the replacement
entities are always \f(CW\*(C`&#x\f(CIhexnum\f(CW;\*(C'\fR and never \f(CW\*(C`&\f(CIentname\f(CW;\*(C'\fR.  For
example, \f(CW\*(C`encode_entities("r\exF4le")\*(C'\fR returns \*(L"r&ocirc;le\*(R", but
\&\f(CW\*(C`encode_entities_numeric("r\exF4le")\*(C'\fR returns \*(L"r&#xF4;le\*(R".
.Sp
This routine is \fInot\fR exported by default.  But you can always
export it with \f(CW\*(C`use HTML::Entities qw(encode_entities_numeric);\*(C'\fR
or even \f(CW\*(C`use HTML::Entities qw(:DEFAULT encode_entities_numeric);\*(C'\fR
.PP
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).
.PP
If you prefer not to import these routines into your namespace, you can
call them as:
.PP
.Vb 4
\&  use HTML::Entities ();
\&  $decoded = HTML::Entities::decode($a);
\&  $encoded = HTML::Entities::encode($a);
\&  $encoded = HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($a);
.Ve
.PP
The module can also export the \f(CW%char2entity\fR and the \f(CW%entity2char\fR
hashes, which contain the mapping from all characters to the
corresponding entities (and vice versa, respectively).
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright 1995\-2006 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
.PP
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.