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Module for lua decoding html entities :) by Tiago Danin.


htmlEntities for Lua

Build Status Luarocks

HTML entities decoding/encoding

Written for Lua5.3 but working with lua5.x!

Features

Installation

Module available through the LuaRocks. It can be installed using the luarocks command line tools.

# LuaRocks
luarocks install html-entities

Example

htmlEntities = require('htmlEntities')
print(htmlEntities.name) -- htmlEntities-for-lua
print(htmlEntities.encode('Tiago Danin :)')) -- Tiago Danin :)
print(htmlEntities.decode('Tiago Danin :)')) -- Tiago Danin :)

Documentation

API

Function Info
htmlEntities Return table with information about module
htmlEntities.decode(input) Decode HTML entities
string:htmlDecode() Same as above
htmlEntities.encode(input) Encode in HTML entities (in ASCII) NOTE: Emoji is not supported here!
string:htmlEncode() Same as above
htmlEntities.ASCII_HEX(input) Decode ASCII HEX
htmlEntities.ASCII_DEC(input) Decode ASCII DEC

Module Options

String Default Info
error_msg_htmlEntities false View log of erros
debug_htmlEntities false Print output
ASCII_htmlEntities true Decode of entities in ASCII
register_global_module_htmlEntities false Register module as global
global_module_name_htmlEntities "htmlEntities" Name in global mode

Tests

To run the test suite:

# Lua
lua tests/cli.lua
# Or
lua tests/travis.lua

Contributors

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue. List of all contributors.

License

MIT © Tiago Danin


Lua

8