Quick decode_entities Question

[Trihedralguy]

Hello Monks, I've been using encode_entities very successfully, it seemed better at the time, but I've been inserting my data into a db with encode_entities. Displaying them on a website was as simple as just select column from table. Now however, I would like to use that same data on a device that is not web, AKA doesnt render entities. I tried to do the following:

my $string = "foo   bar";
$string = decode_entities($string);
print $string

But my data just comes back as my input, what I'm I doing wrong here?

[ikegami]

Personally, I get

Undefined subroutine &main::decode_entities called at -e line 2.

Adding use HTML::Entities; provides the missing decode_entities, but you must be using something else if you're having the problem you describe.

[davido]

What you have typed in there actually doesn't produce foo   bar? Is that the actual code that replicates the problem? Because it doesn't cause me any trouble at all, assuming I use HTML::Entities;

Similarly, say decode_entities( encode_entities( 'this and that' ) ); produces exactly 'this and that' for me.

Is it possible that in reducing the example to minimal code you eliminated the problem without realizing it? Because I can't duplicate it with that code.

If the above code is giving you trouble I think we're going to need to know a little more about the rest of the neighborhood. That snippet cannot fail all by itself. What modules and pragmas are in use? Is there a character-set mismatch?

[Anonymous Monk]

for me encode is working but decode is giving same error :( !!!

[Anonymous Monk]

the problem is on line 42, naturally