Java HTML Unescape unEscapeHtml(String text)

Description

Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String unEscapeHtml(String text) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//  w  ww.j  av a 2 s .  c o  m
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public class Main {
    /**
     * Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing the actual Unicode characters
     * corresponding to the escapes.
     */
    public static String unEscapeHtml(String text) {
        if (text == null || text.length() == 0) {
            return "";
        }

        String result = text;
        result = result.replace("&lt;", "<");
        result = result.replace("&gt;", ">");
        result = result.replace("&amp;", "&");
        result = result.replace("&quot;", "\"");
        result = result.replace("&#034;", "\"");
        result = result.replace("&#039;", "\'");

        return result;
    }
}

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1. unescapeHTML(String s)
2. unescapeHTML(String source)
3. unescapeHTML(String source)
4. unescapeHTML(String source, int start)
5. unescapeHTML(String str)
6. unescapeHTML(String value)
7. unescapeHTML(String value)
8. unescapeHTML2(String source, int start)
9. unescapeHtmlByName(final String input)