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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0e84a192a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_unescape.3 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.\" You can view this file with: +.\" nroff -man [file] +.\" $Id$ +.\" +.TH curl_unescape 3 "22 March 2001" "libcurl 7.7" "libcurl Manual" +.SH NAME +curl_unescape - URL decodes the given string +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B #include <curl/curl.h> +.sp +.BI "char *curl_unescape( char *" url ", int "length " );" +.ad +.SH DESCRIPTION +This function will convert the given URL encoded input string to a "plain +string" and return that as a new allocated string. All input characters that +are URL encoded (%XX where XX is a two-digit hexadecimal number, or +) will be +converted to their plain text versions (up to a ? letter, no letters to the +right of a ? letter will be converted). + +If the 'length' argument is set to 0, curl_unescape() will use strlen() on the +input 'url' string to find out the size. + +You must free() the returned string when you're done with it. +.SH RETURN VALUE +A pointer to a zero terminated string or NULL if it failed. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.I curl_escape(), RFC 2396 |