htmlspecialchars: Replace HTML special characters with HTML entities

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Description

The characters c("&", '"', "'", "<", ">") will be replaced with c("&", """, "'", "<", ">"), respectively.

Usage

htmlspecialchars(string)

Arguments

string

the string with (or w/o) HTML special chars

Value

the string with special chars replaced.

Author(s)

Yihui Xie <https://yihui.org>

References

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

See Also

gsub

Examples

htmlspecialchars("<a href = 'https://yihui.org'>Yihui</a>")
# &lt;a href = &#039;https://yihui.org&#039;&gt;Yihui&lt;/a&gt;

fun documentation built on Oct. 24, 2020, 1:07 a.m.