How to unescape HTML string

[Sebastian Mark]

I have a simple question, is there an easy way in .NET
to unescape HTML characters?
for example I have a string

"Siebel Analytics Sr Consultant-"Partn er w/ Deloitte & have
the oppty to become a Partner&quo t;"

and I want to have

"Siebel Analytics Sr Consultant- Partner w/ Deloitte & have the oppty to
become a Partner"

Thank You

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: How to unescape HTML string

"Sebastian Mark" <REMOMEsaint@te rian.netschrieb :

>I have a simple question, is there an easy way in .NET
to unescape HTML characters?
for example I have a string
>
"Siebel Analytics Sr Consultant-&amp;quot;Partn er w/ Deloitte &amp;amp;
have
the oppty to become a Partner&amp;quo t;"
>
and I want to have
>
"Siebel Analytics Sr Consultant- Partner w/ Deloitte & have the oppty to
become a Partner"

Try 'HttpUtility.Ht mlDecode'.

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[AMercer]

Re: How to unescape HTML string

Try 'HttpUtility.Ht mlDecode'.

Is there a specification somewhere of exactly what HtmlDecode does? The
documentatation is vague and cites some examples (space, lt, gt). I would
like to know exactly what it does.

[Larry Lard]

Re: How to unescape HTML string

AMercer wrote:

>Try 'HttpUtility.Ht mlDecode'.

>
Is there a specification somewhere of exactly what HtmlDecode does? The
documentatation is vague and cites some examples (space, lt, gt). I would
like to know exactly what it does.
>

Probably, but I couldn't find it, so I just got Reflector to tell me
what HtmlEncode does:

- characters after are encoded to &#number;
- " < & are encoded to &quot; &lt; &gt; &amp; respectively
- that seems to be it


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