Rails - Apr 2009 - Method to remove html escape characters from strings

Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:

=> "hello & goodbye"
>> "hello & goodbye".gsub(/&/,
"&")
=> "hello & goodbye"

but I figured there might be a better way.

thx.
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> Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
> Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:
>
> => "hello & goodbye"
>>> "hello & goodbye".gsub(/&/,
"&")
> => "hello & goodbye"
>
> but I figured there might be a better way.
require ''CGI''>> require ''CGI''
=> true
 >> CGI::unescapeHTML("hello & goodbye
"bar" <baz>")
=> "hello & goodbye "bar" <baz>"

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That worked.  Thanks!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Philip Hallstrom
<philip-LSG90OXdqQE@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > Is there a convenient way of removing html escape characters from
> > Strings? I could do using reg exp as in:
> >
> > => "hello &amp; goodbye"
> >>> "hello &amp; goodbye".gsub(/&amp;/,
"&")
> > => "hello & goodbye"
> >
> > but I figured there might be a better way.
>
> require ''CGI''>> require ''CGI''
> => true
>  >> CGI::unescapeHTML("hello &amp; goodbye
&quot;bar&quot; &lt;baz&gt;")
> => "hello & goodbye "bar" <baz>"
>
> >
>
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If found this little snap that I got in my application_helper

  def remove_html_tags(str)
    str.gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
  end

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