From: | Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: How to html-decode a html-encoded field |
Date: | 2012-04-12 12:26:18 |
Message-ID: | jm6hla$bld$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx |
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On 2012-04-10, JORGE MALDONADO <jorgemal1960(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> --000e0ce0d2ee43edb104bd553408
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> I have a table with a varchar field, such a field is HTML ENCODED. So, for
> example, the string "PLAIN WHITE T'S" is saved as "PLAIN WHITE
> T''S" (double quotes are not part of the string, I use them for
> clarity only). I need to perform a SELECT statement on this table and get
> the values HTML DECODED and I wonder if there is a function that I can
> include in such a statement for this purpose, for example "SELECT
> htmldecode(fld1) FROM table1". I will appreciate anu comments about my
> issue.
if you don't mind gettin an exception or the wrong answer on invalid
input you can abuse xpath thusly:
with sample as ( values ('magic'),('s&witch'),('toaster'))
select
column1 as input ,
(xpath('/z/text()', ('<z>'|| column1 ||'</z>')::xml))[1] as output
from sample
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