awesome-string/src/escape/unescape_html.js

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import coerceToString from 'helper/string/coerce_to_string';

const unescapeCharactersMap = {
  '<': /(&lt;)|(&#x0*3c;)|(&#0*60;)/gi,
  '>': /(&gt;)|(&#x0*3e;)|(&#0*62;)/gi,
  '&': /(&amp;)|(&#x0*26;)|(&#0*38;)/gi,
  '"': /(&quot;)|(&#x0*22;)|(&#0*34;)/gi,
  "'": /(&#x0*27;)|(&#0*39;)/gi,
  '`': /(&#x0*60;)|(&#0*96;)/gi
};
const characters = Object.keys(unescapeCharactersMap);

/**
 * Replaces the HTML entities with corresponding characters.
 *
 * @ignore
 * @param  {string} string The accumulator string.
 * @param  {string} key    The character.
 * @return {string}        The string with replaced HTML entity
 */
function reduceUnescapedString(string, key) {
  return string.replace(unescapeCharactersMap[key], key);
}

/**
 * Unescapes HTML special characters from <code>&amp;lt; &amp;gt; &amp;amp; &amp;quot; &amp;#x27; &amp;#x60;</code>
 * to corresponding <code>< > & ' " `</code> in <code>subject</code>.
 *
 * @function unescapeHtml
 * @static
 * @since 1.0.0
 * @memberOf Escape
 * @param  {string} [subject=''] The string to unescape.
 * @return {string}              Returns the unescaped string.
 * @example
 * as.unescapeHtml('&lt;p&gt;wonderful world&lt;/p&gt;');
 * // => '<p>wonderful world</p>'
 */
export default function unescapeHtml(subject) {
  const subjectString = coerceToString(subject);
  return characters.reduce(reduceUnescapedString, subjectString);
}