| Functions and CALL Routines |
Decodes a string that contains HTML numeric character references
or HTML character entity references, and returns the decoded string.
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expression
-
specifies a character constant, variable,
or expression.
The HTMLDECODE function recognizes the
following character entity references:
|
Character entity reference |
decoded character |
|
& |
& |
|
< |
< |
|
> |
> |
|
" |
" |
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' |
' |
Unrecognized entities (&<name>;) are left unmodified in the
output string.
The HTMLDECODE function recognizes numeric entity references
that are of the form
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&#nnn;
|
where nnn
specifies a decimal number that contains one or more digits. |
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&#Xnnn;
|
where nnn
specifies a hexadecimal number that contains one or more digits. |
Operating Environment Information: Numeric character references
that cannot be represented in the current SAS session encoding will not be
decoded. The reference will be copied unchanged to the output string. ![[cautionend]](../../../../common/63294/HTML/default/images/cautend.gif)
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SAS Statements |
Results |
x1=htmldecode('not a <tag>');
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not a <tag>
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x2=htmldecode('&');
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'&'
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x3=htmldecode ('ABC');
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'ABC'
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