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Ruby unescape HTML string

Any idea how I can unescape the following string in Ruby?

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\adminWeb

to

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\adminWeb

or to

C%3A%5Cinetpub%5Cwwwroot%5CadminWeb

Tried with URI.decode with no success.

Solution

  • The CGI library is one option:

    require 'cgi'

CGI.unescapeHTML('C:\inetpub\wwwroot\adminWeb')
# => "C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\adminWeb"