Editor test results logging special characters instead of text

[freecodecamp]

Editor test results logging special characters instead of text

[Bouncey]

The message need to be unescaped going into the output console.

[rishiip]

@Bouncey I would like to work on it, please let me know if it's not been assigned to anyone.

I guess we can use this article for fix it: https://paulschreiber.com/blog/2008/09/20/javascript-how-to-unescape-html-entities/

[Bouncey]

It is yours @rishiip 👍

[alvinkl]

@rishiip you can use this function

const unescapeString = str => {
  const el = document.createElement('div');
  return str.replace(/\&[#0-9a-z]+;/gi, enc => {
    el.innerHTML = enc;
    return el.innerText;
  });
};

export default unescapeString;

Good luck! 👍

[rishiip]

@alvinkl Sure 🎉

[Bouncey]

@alvinkl @rishiip, we do not need to create any elements for this. It is just string manipulation

[Bouncey]

Oh, now I get it. I'll be quiet for a moment

[rishiip]

Hi @Bouncey @alvinkl As I am new to React. I am figuring out how method works in react app. I already figured out the file in which I needs to do modification. I'll let you know, if I am not able to fix it. So that you can assign it to someone else. 😊

[tchaffee]

@rishiip How is this going? I'm willing to take this over if you can't get to it.

[rishiip]

@tchaffee That would be great! Apologies.

I'm learning node and react, I'll be back soon 😊

[tchaffee]

@Bouncey This was fixed with my PR #111 and can be closed.