NAME

HTML::Entity::Fast - Encode / Decode HTML entities faster

SYNOPSIS

use HTML::Entity::Fast;

say encode-html-entities '<ent> & ©';                 # &lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;
say decode-html-entities '&lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;';  # <ent> & ©

my $w-encode = whitelist-in-encode("<",">");
say encode-html-entities '<ent> & ©', $w-encode;                 # <ent> &amp; &copy;

my $w-decode = whitelist-in-decode('&amp;');
say decode-html-entities '&lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;', $w-decode;  # <ent> &amp; ©

DESCRIPTION

HTML::Entity::Fast provides subroutines for encoding and decoding HTML entities in a string.

SUBROUTINES

encode-html-entities

say encode-html-entities '<ent> & ©';             # &lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;

my $w-encode = whitelist-in-encode("<",">");
say encode-html-entities '<ent> & ©', $w-encode;  # <ent> &amp; &copy;

Encode any special characters in a given string to their HTML entity counterpart. Optionally takes a second argument indicating the exact mapping to be used (which is usually the result of a call to the whitelist-in-encode subroutine).

decode-html-entities

say decode-html-entities '&lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;';  # <ent> & ©

my $w-decode = whitelist-in-decode('&amp;');
say decode-html-entities '&lt;ent&gt; &amp; &copy;', $w-decode;  # <ent> &amp; ©

Decode any HTML entities in a given string to their Unicode counterpart. Optionally takes a second argument indicatig the exact mapping to be used (which is usually the result of a call to the whitelist-in-decode subroutine).

whitelist-in-encode

my $w-encode = whitelist-in-encode("<",">");

The whitelist-in-encode subroutine takes any number of arguments, each indicating a character that should not be converted by the encode-html-entities subroutine. It returns a lookup map that can be specified as the second positional argument to encode-html-entities.

whitelist-in-decode

my $w-decode = whitelist-in-decode('&amp;');

The whitelist-in-decode subroutine takes any number of arguments, each indicating a HTML entity that should not be converted by the decode-html-entities subroutine. It returns a lookup map that can be specified as the second positional argument to decode-html-entities.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen liz@raku.rocks

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/HTML-Entity-Fast . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.