URLDecode |
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Description
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Decodes a URL-encoded string.
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Returns
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A copy of a string, decoded.
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Category
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Conversion functions, Other functions, String functions
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Function syntax |
URLDecode(urlEncodedString[, charset])
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See also
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URLEncodedFormat
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History
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ColdFusion MX 6.1: Changed the default charset: the default charset is the character encoding of the URL scope.
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ColdFusion MX:
- Changed Unicode support: ColdFusion supports the Java UCS-2 representation of Unicode character values 0-65535. (Earlier releases supported ASCII values.)
- Added the charset parameter.
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Parameters
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Parameter |
Description |
urlEncodedString |
URL-encoded string or a variable that contains one. |
charset |
The character encoding in which the URL is encoded. Optional. |
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The following list includes commonly used values:: |
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utf-8 |
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iso-8859-1 |
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windows-1252 |
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us-ascii |
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shift_jis |
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iso-2022-jp |
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euc-jp |
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euc-kr |
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big5 |
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euc-cn |
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utf-16 |
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For more information on character encodings, see: |
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www.w3.org/International/O-charset.html. |
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Default: the character encoding of the URL scope. See SetEncoding |
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on page 693. |
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Usage
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URL encoding formats some characters with a percent sign and the two-character hexadecimal representation of the character. For example, a character whose code is 129 is encoded as %81. A space is encoded with a plus sign.
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Query strings in HTTP are always URL-encoded.
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Example
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This example creates, encodes, and decodes a string that contains ASCII character codes.
<cfscript>
// Build string
s = "";
for (c = 1; c lte 256; c = c + 1)
{
s = s & chr(c);
}
// Encode string and display result
enc = URLEncodedFormat(s);
WriteOutput("Encoded string is: '#enc#'.<br>");
// Decode and compare result with original
dec = URLDecode(enc);
if (dec neq s)
{
WriteOutput("Decoded is not the same as encoded.");
}
else
{
WriteOutput("All's quiet on the Western front.");
}
</cfscript>
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