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rawurldecode

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

rawurldecode — Decode URL-encoded strings

string rawurldecode ( string $str )

Returns a string in which the sequences with percent (%) signs followed by two hex digits have been replaced with literal characters.

Returns the decoded URL, as a string.

Example #1 rawurldecode() example


<?php



echo rawurldecode('foo%20bar%40baz'); // foo bar@baz



?>

Note: rawurldecode() does not decode plus symbols ('+') into spaces. urldecode() does.