Unescape

Availability

Flash Lite 1.1.

Description

Decodes an arbitrary string that was encoded to be safe for network transfer into its normal, unencoded form. All characters that are in hexadecimal format, that is, a percent character (%) followed by two hexadecimal digits, are converted into their decoded form.

Command

Parameters

Value returned

"Unescape"

original  String to be decoded from a format safe for URLs to a normal form.

decoded   Resulting decoded string.

(This parameter can be either the name of a variable or a string value that contains the name of a variable.)

0: Failure.

1: Success.

Example

The following example shows the decoding of an encoded string:

encoded_string = "Hello%2C%20how%20are%20you%3F";
status = fscommand2("unescape", encoded_string, "normal_string");
trace (normal_string);                                            // output: Hello, how are you?

See also

Escape