Help: HTML special characters to regular text

[spyrorocks]

Hello.

I need some help. i am grabbing some html from a website but when it returns it it replaces some special accented characters with html equilivents, like & # 3 9 ; (spaces added to make it show)

for example.

does anyone know of a function that i can use that would allow me to turn them back into regular letters?

edit: edit: crap.

Edited September 12, 2006 by spyrorocks

[SmOke_N]

Hello.

I need some help. i am grabbing some html from a website but when it returns it it replaces some special accented characters with html equilivents, like & # 3 9 ; (spaces added to make it show)

for example.

does anyone know of a function that i can use that would allow me to turn them back into regular letters?

edit: edit: crap.

There's not a function I'm aware of, but you could write your own UDF to do it (with StringReplace())

[spyrorocks]

Yeah i guess. does stringreplace() accept arrays as the search and replace variables? because if it dont then this could be a pain to do because there are soo many special character codes.

[SmOke_N]

Yeah i guess. does stringreplace() accept arrays as the search and replace variables? because if it dont then this could be a pain to do because there are soo many special character codes.

Do you know what an array is and what it returns when called?... if you do, then you know the answer to that question.

[spyrorocks]

Yes i do.

Im was just wondeing cuz i never used an array with stringreplace() before, and some functions accept an array.

[SmOke_N]

Yes i do.

Im was just wondeing cuz i never used an array with stringreplace() before, and some functions accept an array.

That doesn't really make any sense, but ok.

This might start it off, there are obviously more, but you can take the time to put all of them in there.

Func _HTMLReplace($sString)
    Local $aReplace[5] = ['', '"', '&', '<', '>']
    Local $aEntity[5] = ['', '"', '&', '<', '>']
    Local $aDecimal[5] = ['', '"', '&', '<', '>']
    Local $aHex[5] = ['', '"', '&', '<', '>']
    For $iCC = 1 To UBound($aReplace) - 1
        $sString = StringReplace($sString, $aEntity[$iCC], $aReplace[$iCC])
        $sString = StringReplace($sString, $aDecimal[$iCC], $aReplace[$iCC])
        $sString = StringReplace($sString, $aHex[$iCC], $aReplace[$iCC])
    Next
    Return $sString
EndFunc

Edit:

Dammit, code tags are converting some of the chars... I'll upload the example.

HTMLReplace.au3.txt

Edited September 12, 2006 by SmOke_N

[spyrorocks]

OK thanks for getting me started. Ill add some more.

[DaleHohm]

OK thanks for getting me started. Ill add some more.

You can also use COM and the .innerText property of an object. This is what _IEBodyReadText uses on the document body object to return rendered text.

Dale