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I have a report that reads a log file that contains URLs. The URLs are "escaped" - blanks and other values are encoded using %20, etc.

I don't imagine there's a WebFOCUS function that "unescapes" these escaped values. Does anyone have any ideas on how to unescape a URL inside WebFOCUS?
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
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Been there, done that. Use MAINTAIN to transform the records. Its string manipulation functions outclass the traditional 'FUSELIB' ones.
 
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Another 'messy' alternative is to use the OVRLAY function (e.g. OVRLAY(URL_Field,length,'% ',3,pos of percentage sign,'Ann'). Trouble is that you will end up with a string that contains the correct character plus two blanks so you might need to then remove excessive blanks?

As I said - messy Frowner
 
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