Comments on: Converting html entities in AS3

By: Bevan

Bevan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:05:29 +0000

Thanks for posting.
I did come across one little problem when using Air, if you pass in a null string it crashes Air (the ADL when debugging).
So I made a small change:

public function htmlEscape(str:String):String
{
if(!str) return “”;
return XML( new XMLNode( XMLNodeType.TEXT_NODE, str ) ).toXMLString();
}

By: Monokai

Monokai — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:46:51 +0000

Yes, that’s true, they don’t belong there. Thanks for your insight!

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:36:34 +0000

Monokai: Technically the htmlUnescape function shouldnt work for strings with < and > in, since those characters arent valid inside an escaped string anyway.
However, you can replace those manually:
str = str.replace(//g,”>”)

By: Monokai

Monokai — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:06:08 +0000

This doesn’t when your string contains “<” characters, any ideas?

By: Diabolo

Diabolo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:50:27 +0000

Thank you!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:20:56 +0000

thanks!

By: bobnik

bobnik — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:49:29 +0000

Exactly what the doctor ordered. Thank you.

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:35:35 +0000

I don’t actually need to know this right now, but I will in about a week or so. Thanks m8.