Format

url_decode(UrlText)

Args

UrlText: text to be “unescaped”

Returns

unescaped text

Most non-alphanumeric characters are converted to another format in a URL. To send these characters literally, they must be “escaped”.

The url_decode() instruction takes a text string containing such escaped symbols and turns them into their literal counterparts. Usually this is done for you automatically in Topic(). The more useful function is url_encode() which does the reverse.

See also

url_encode proc