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Remove HTML Encoded characters

I'm getting some data from the database and it has HTML Encoded chars ( ). What options are there for removing these?

I don't want these rendered at all...I want them stripped from the data.

At the moment I'm not worried about the HTML tags...just the encoded characters.

EDIT: If it's relevant these chars are causing some errors in JSON validation.

Solution

  • If you want to get rid of them, obtain a list of such characters or a RegExp matching them all (something like &[a-z]+;) and do a search-and replace.

    However, if you only want them gone due to errors in JSON validation, you should correctly generated/encode your JSON to avoid the errors. (However, I don't really understand how they can cause invalid JSON.)