C#•15mo ago

❔ Unescaping special characters

Working on a little SaaS thumbnail preview tool I'm gonna sell, and special characters like apostrophes ( ' ) are getting escaped when I grab stuff from the YouTube API. How do I unescape these? I can't find anything online

10 Replies

Nate Curtiss•15mo ago

L-I-V-E-2DAY•15mo ago

HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(string s), I believe

Nate Curtiss•15mo ago

Bless up that worked

L-I-V-E-2DAY•15mo ago

glad to hear it

MODiX•15mo ago

mtreit#6470

REPL Result: Failure

var x = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("foo's");
Console.WriteLine(x);
Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(x));

var x = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("foo's");
Console.WriteLine(x);
Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(x));

Exception: CompilationErrorException

- The name 'HttpUtility' does not exist in the current context
- The name 'HttpUtility' does not exist in the current context

- The name 'HttpUtility' does not exist in the current context
- The name 'HttpUtility' does not exist in the current context

Compile: 613.517ms | Execution: 0.000ms | React with ❌ to remove this embed.

mtreit•15mo ago

😦

L-I-V-E-2DAY•15mo ago

using System.Web

mtreit•15mo ago

Yeah

MODiX•15mo ago

mtreit#6470

REPL Result: Success

            var x = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("foo's");
            Console.WriteLine(x);
            Console.WriteLine(System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(x));

            var x = System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode("foo's");
            Console.WriteLine(x);
            Console.WriteLine(System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(x));

Console Output

foo&#39;s
foo's

foo&#39;s
foo's

Compile: 559.859ms | Execution: 74.312ms | React with ❌ to remove this embed.

Accord•15mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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❔ Unescaping special characters