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?

Been there, done that. Use MAINTAIN to transform the records. Its string manipulation functions outclass the traditional 'FUSELIB' ones.

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