To convert HTML character to plain text

[pratik_kumar]

Hi All,

I have a requirement to create a business rule which should copy plain text from Html field("field name: unit_description") and update it to a text filed(field name :"u_so_description")

I created this business rule

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {

var a=current.unit_description.getXHTMLValue();

//to remove HTML text...

a= a.replace(/&(lt|gt);/g, function (strMatch, p1){

return (p1 == "lt")? "<" : ">";

});

var b = a.replace(/<\/?[^>]+(>|$)/g, "");

current.setDisplayValue('u_so_description',b);

})(current, previous);

This business rule is replacing all symbols except &.

For & still i am getting &amp; in plain text.

Kindly help me on this/

[pratik_kumar]

Hi Shishir,

For & -----&amp; is getting populated in plain text field.

So i have used &amp; and i also tried using   &amp still same error

[Shishir Srivast]

Tested this in background script and it worked, not sure what could be the issue then

var b = '+test +&amp;'

var c = b.replace('&amp;', '&');

gs.print(c);

[Nana5]

Hi

Please try below line and let me know if still you are facing same issue.

var c = b.replace(/&amp/i, '&');

Thanks

[pratik_kumar]

Hi Prakash,

i tried   var c = b.replace(/&amp/i, '&');   this is also not working for me.

[Nana5]

Hi

Please refer to below link for regular expression, it may be helpful :

JavaScript RegExp Object

Thanks