Question

I am downloading a JSONObject from a web site. The entries are however HTML-encoded, using

" 

and

&

tags. Is there an easy way to get these to Java strings? Short of writing the converter myself, of course.

Thanks RG

PS: I am using the stuff in a ListView. Probably I can use Html.fromHTML as I can for TextView. Don’t know.

Answer 1

OK, I simply went to write my own quick fix. Not efficient, but that’s OK for the purpose. A 5-minutes-solution.

public static String unescape (String s)
{
    while (true)
    {
        int n=s.indexOf("&#");
        if (n<0) break;
        int m=s.indexOf(";",n+2);
        if (m<0) break;
        try
        {
            s=s.substring(0,n)+(char)(Integer.parseInt(s.substring(n+2,m)))+
                s.substring(m+1);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            return s;
        }
    }
    s=s.replace("&quot;","\"");
    s=s.replace("&lt;","<");
    s=s.replace("&gt;",">");
    s=s.replace("&amp;","&");
    return s;
}