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'use strict'
/* eslint-env browser */
var el
var semicolon = 59 // ';'
module.exports = decodeEntity
function decodeEntity(characters) {
var entity = '&' + characters + ';'
var char
el = el || document.createElement('i')
el.innerHTML = entity
char = el.textContent
// Some entities do not require the closing semicolon (`&not` - for instance),
// which leads to situations where parsing the assumed entity of &notit; will
// result in the string `¬it;`. When we encounter a trailing semicolon after
// parsing and the entity to decode was not a semicolon (`;`), we can
// assume that the matching was incomplete
if (char.charCodeAt(char.length - 1) === semicolon && characters !== 'semi') {
return false
}
// If the decoded string is equal to the input, the entity was not valid
return char === entity ? false : char
}