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unescapeElement() in Ruby

By: Jeeva  

unescapeElement(string, *elements)

Undo escaping such as that done by CGI::escapeElement()

  print CGI::unescapeElement(
          CGI::escapeHTML('<BR><A HREF="url"></A>'), "A", "IMG")
    # "&lt;BR&gt;<A HREF="url"></A>"

  print CGI::unescapeElement(
          CGI::escapeHTML('<BR><A HREF="url"></A>'), ["A", "IMG"])
    # "&lt;BR&gt;<A HREF="url"></A>"

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