Decoding HTML entities

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I’m grabbing contents of some web pages to extract some details and then send to a log. The HTML I get sometimes includes “HTML entities” such as &rsquot; and &. These were necessary in ASCII-only days, but aren’t needed now we have UTF-8 most places.

I could write a series of find-and-replaces, but I’d prefer to re-use someone else’s tested work.

(The URL Encode/Decode action doesn’t deal with these, at least for me. It deals with %-encodings only, it seems.)

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If you are not interested in the tags and just the text, convert the HTML to rich text and then take the text from that.

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Neat thought, thanks, @sylumer.