Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)Free

Text Utilities

by Appian Corporation

Description

Escape and unescape the characters in a string using HTML or Java entities

Features

Escape and unescape the characters in a string using HTML or Java entities

Release notes

Validated for Java 17

Version history (1)

1.0.3

[MIGRATED] UPDATED 18/02/2016

  • New functions added:
  • urlEncode(): URL encodes a string.
  • urlDecode(): URL decodes a string.

UPDATED 12/02/2014

  • New functions added:
  • escapeJava(): Escapes the characters in a String using Java String rules.
  • unescapeJava(): Unescapes any Java literals found in the String

The first version of this plug-in includes functions to:

-htmlEncode(): Escapes the characters in a String using HTML entities. Useful to display accented or non UTF-8 characters in a paging grid when using todatasubset()

  • htmlDecode(): Performs the opposite operation. Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes.

escapeJava(Text) unescapeJava(Text) htmlEncode(Text) htmlDecode(Text) urlEncode(Text) urlDecode(Text)