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URLDecode["string"]

decodes a URL-style percent-encoded string.

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URLDecode

URLDecode["string"]

decodes a URL-style percent-encoded string.

Details and Options

  • By default, URLDecode assumes that character codes of percent-encoded characters are in UTF-8.
  • URLDecode has option CharacterEncoding, which allows other character encodings to be specified.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

Decode a percent-encoded string:

URLDecode automatically threads over lists:

Options  (1)

CharacterEncoding  (1)

Decode a percent-encoded string using a specified encoding:

Wolfram Research (2014), URLDecode, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), URLDecode, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "URLDecode." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). URLDecode. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_urldecode, author="Wolfram Research", title="{URLDecode}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html}", note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_urldecode, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={URLDecode}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/URLDecode.html}, note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}