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VB.NET Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

HTML Entity Encode and Decode in StringBuilder

Demonstrates HTML encoding and decoding the contents of a StringBuilder.

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VB.NET
Dim sb As New Chilkat.StringBuilder

Dim s As String = "< é ü ç Ω Hello & World ✓ >"
sb.Append(s)

sb.Encode("html","utf-8")
Debug.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString())


'  Output:
'  < &eacute; &uuml; &ccedil; &ohm; Hello & World &check; >


'  To decode:
sb.Decode("html","utf-8")
Debug.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString())

'  Output:
'  < é ü ç Ω Hello & World ✓ >