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html_entity_decode

Unescaping a string that has been escaped for HTML can be done using the CGI.unescapeHTML class method.

{{code:php $result = html_entity_decode("test "unescaping" <characters>"); var_export($result); // => 'test "escaping" ' }}

{{code:ruby require 'cgi'

p CGI.unescapeHTML("test &quot;unescaping&quot; &lt;characters&gt;")
# => "test \"unescaping\" <characters>"

}}

{{related: strings/htmlspecialchars strings/htmlentities url/urldecode strings/get_html_translation_table }}