Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/entity_converter.rb

Overview

extends the string class to convert html entities use carefully, can not convert entities back, as some entities are just skipped, because the are not useful for the search generation process

  • $Author$

  • $Rev$

  • $LastChangedDate$

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#decode_html_entities ⇒ Object

this method converts encoded entities to their utf-8 euqivalent. be careful this method strips out all unknown entities because they are of no special use for the semantic search



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# File 'lib/entity_converter.rb', line 10

def decode_html_entities
  mgsub([[/ä/,'ä'],[/Ä/,'Ä'],[/ö/,'ö'],[/Ö/,'Ö'],[/ü/,'ü'],[/Ü/,'Ü'],[/ß/,'ß'],[/&[a-zA-Z]{4,6};/,' ']])
end

#encode_html_entities ⇒ Object

encodes html entities



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# File 'lib/entity_converter.rb', line 15

def encode_html_entities
  mgsub([[/ä/,'ä'],[/Ä/,'Ä'],[/ö/,'ö'],[/Ö/,'Ö'],[/ü/,'ü'],[/U/,'Ü'],[/ß/,'ß']])    
end

#umlaut_to_downcase ⇒ Object

converts uppercase umlauts to downcase



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# File 'lib/entity_converter.rb', line 20

def umlaut_to_downcase
  mgsub([[/Ä/,'ä'],[/Ö/,'ö'],[/Ü/,'ü']])
end