htmlspecialchars_decode

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

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

{{code:ruby require 'cgi'

p CGI.unescapeHTML("test "unescaping" <characters>")
# => "test \"unescaping\" <characters>"

}}

{{related: strings/htmlspecialchars strings/html_entity_decode }}