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URL Decode

Demonstrates how to URL decode a string.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\StringBuilder;

$sb = new StringBuilder();

// Here we wish to URL decode the following string:
$sb->Append('%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A81.jpg');

// Notice the above string contains Hebrew chars using the utf-8 byte representation.
// See https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables/BasicHebrew.html
// For example:  D79E is the HEBREW LETTER MEM

// Therefore, when we decode to binary bytes, we must interpret the bytes as utf-8
// to get characters.

// Tell Chilkat to URL decode like this:
$sb->Decode('url', 'utf-8');

// sb now contains the decoded string.
echo $sb->GetAsString(), "\n";