System.Web Namespace   HttpServerUtility Class

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URL-decodes a string and returns the decoded string.

[ VB ]
Overloads Public Function UrlDecode ( _
   ByVal s As String _
) As String

[ C# ]
public string UrlDecode (
   string s
);

[ C++ ]
public: String* UrlDecode (
   String* s
);

[ JScript ]
public function UrlDecode (
   s : String
) : String;

s

The text string to decode.

The decoded text.

URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmitted text in URL strings. Characters such as "?", "&", "/", and spaces may be truncated or corrupted by some browsers so those characters cannot be used in ASP.NET pages in "<A>" tags or in querystrings where the strings may be sent by a browser in a request string.

The following example decodes the string named EncodedString ( received in a URL ) into the string named DecodedString.

[ VB ] 
Dim DecodedString As String = Server.UrlDecode ( EncodedString )

[ C# ] 
String DecodedString = Server.UrlDecode ( EncodedString );
   

HttpServerUtility Members   HttpServerUtility.UrlDecode Overload List

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