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/ cleanhtml.lua
Created
February 14, 2014 13:37
Cleans rich text so that HTML is cleanly removed, p and br tags are reduced to new lines and some special characters are replaced with the text equivelents.
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| local t = [[ your html ]] | |
| -- list of strings to replace (the order is important to avoid conflicts) | |
| local cleaner = { | |
| { "&", "&" }, -- decode ampersands | |
| { "—", "-" }, -- em dash | |
| { "’", "'" }, -- right single quote | |
| { "“", "\"" }, -- left double quote | |
| { "”", "\"" }, -- right double quote | |
| { "–", "-" }, -- en dash |