Name
unescapeString — Undo URL escaping on a string
Usage
URL.unescape (str)
: Stringstr
Description
Returns a new string in which all escape sequences in
str
of the form
%
hh
(where
hh
is two hex digits) have been replaced
with the ASCII character with hex code hh
.
Returns invalid
if str
can’t be converted to a string, if it contains characters from
outside the US-ASCII character set, or if any of the escape sequences
have hex values greater than %7F
.
Example
URL.unescapeString("%2Ffoo.cgi%3Ffoo%3D1%26bar%3D2")
returns string "/foo.cgi?foo=1&bar=2"
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