Difference between revisions of "HTML ENTITIES()"

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use example
 
use example
 
goto 1
 
goto 1
? "<pre>"
+
? "&lt;pre>"
 
? html_entities(notes)
 
? html_entities(notes)
? "</pre>"
+
? "&lt;/pre>"
 
close databases
 
close databases
 
%>
 
%>

Revision as of 15:51, 16 February 2010

Purpose

Function to return a string from a character string or memo field where qualifying characters have been replaced with their html entity equivalents


Syntax

HTML_ENTITIES(<expC> | <memofield>)


See Also

ASC(), AT(), ATNEXT(), CHR(), CHRTRAN(), HTML_ENTITY_DECODE(), INLIST(), LEFT(), OCCURS(), RAT(), RIGHT(), STR(), STR_REPLACE(), STREXTRACT(), STRTRAN(), STUFF(), SUBSTR()


Description

The HTML_ENTITIES() function will search <expC> or <memofield> and return a string where qualifying characters have been replaced with their html entity equivalents.


The following characters are converted to their HML entity equivalents:

  • Tab (chr(9))
  • Line feed (chr(10))
  • Carriage return (chr(13))
  • "
  • &
  • '
  • <
  • >


Example

<!-- dispmemo.rsp -->
<html>
<body>
<%
open database southwind
use example
goto 1
? "&lt;pre>"
? html_entities(notes)
? "&lt;/pre>"
close databases
%>
</body>
</html>


Products

Recital Server, Recital