HTML ENTITIES()

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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
 ? "<pre>"
 ? html_entities(notes)
 ? "</pre>"
 close databases
 %>
 </body>
 </html>


Products

Recital Server, Recital