Parse / Replace HTML entity characters after JSON Stringify

Asked Apr 19 '18 at 15:59

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I have JSON and accessed text in it by using JSON.stringify. The example text looks like this:

This is a test &#8211; More tests

What I want to do is replace the &#8211 character with the - character. This method is fine for one single character but I want to filter out most of the other characters and therefore I don't want to do a hundred if-statements.

How do I do this in JavaScript, is there a way to replace the HTML entity character codes by their actual characters?

edited Apr 19 '18 at 16:04

asked Apr 19 '18 at 15:59

OldMcDonald

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`–` that's a html entity – Huangism Apr 19 '18 at 16:02
Thanks, I've corrected that. – OldMcDonald Apr 19 '18 at 16:04
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7394748/whats-the-right-way-to-decode-a-string-that-has-special-html-entities-in-it?lq=1 – Ajaypayne Apr 19 '18 at 16:07
Thank you Ajaypayne, I'll try using that. – OldMcDonald Apr 19 '18 at 16:09

Parse / Replace HTML entity characters after JSON Stringify

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