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Text.DecodeFromURL

Decode an URL string.

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MBS( "Text.DecodeFromURL"; text { ; Encoding } )   More

(old name: String.DecodeFromURL)

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
text The text to process. "Hello+%C3%B6%C3%A4%C3%BC"
Encoding The text encoding for result.
Default is native. This function can also handle UTF-16 as well as UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE for little/big endian byte order.
Possible encoding names: ANSI, ISO-8859-1, Latin1, Mac, Native, UTF-8, DOS, Hex, Base64 or Windows. More listed in the FAQ.
"UTF-8" Optional

Result

Returns decoded text.

Description

Decode an URL string.
This function should work the same as PHP's urldecode function.

Examples

Decode URL as UTF-8:

MBS( "Text.DecodeFromURL"; "Hello+World"; "utf8" )

Example result: Hello World

Encode and Decode with umlauts and UTF-8:

$v = "Hello öäü"
$e = MBS( "Text.EncodeToURL"; "$v; "utf8" )
# e has now value "Hello+%C3%B6%C3%A4%C3%BC"
$d = MBS( "Text.DecodeFromURL"; $e; "utf8" )
# d has now value "Hello öäü"

See also

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 11st December 2016


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