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46 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"NAME"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">NAME
</h2>
47 <p class=
"level0">curl_easy_unescape - URL decodes the given string
<a name=
"SYNOPSIS"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">SYNOPSIS
</h2>
48 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">#include
<curl/curl.h
></span>
49 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"bold">char *curl_easy_unescape( CURL * curl , char * url , int inlength
</span> <span Class=
"bold">, int * outlength );
</span>
50 <p class=
"level0"><a name=
"DESCRIPTION"></a><h2 class=
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</h2>
51 <p class=
"level0">This function converts the given URL encoded input string to a
"plain string" and returns that in an allocated memory area. All input characters that are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number) are converted to their binary versions.
52 <p class=
"level0">If the
<span Class=
"bold">length
</span> argument is set to
0 (zero),
<a class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_easy_unescape.html">curl_easy_unescape(
3)
</a> will use strlen() on the input
<span Class=
"emphasis">url
</span> string to find out the size.
53 <p class=
"level0">If
<span Class=
"bold">outlength
</span> is non-NULL, the function will write the length of the returned string in the integer it points to. This allows an escaped string containing %
00 to still get used properly after unescaping.
54 <p class=
"level0">You must
<a class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_free.html">curl_free(
3)
</a> the returned string when you're done with it.
<a name=
"AVAILABILITY"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">AVAILABILITY
</h2>
55 <p class=
"level0">Added in
7.15.4 and replaces the old
<a class=
"emphasis" href=
"./curl_unescape.html">curl_unescape(
3)
</a> function.
<a name=
"RETURN"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">RETURN VALUE
</h2>
56 <p class=
"level0">A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed.
<a name=
"SEE"></a><h2 class=
"nroffsh">SEE ALSO
</h2>
57 <p class=
"level0"><span Class=
"emphasis">curl_easy_escape(
3), curl_free(
3), RFC
2396</span> <p class=
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