Re: URL Decoding

From: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild(at)freesurf(dot)fr>
To: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: URL Decoding
Date: 2006-11-23 11:20:24
Message-ID: 456583F8.6040906@freesurf.fr
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Tino Wildenhain a écrit :
> Arnaud Lesauvage schrieb:
>> Hi List !
>>
>> I am looking for an easy URL decoding function.
>> I thought about using regexp_replace, but I cna't get it to work :
>>
>> SELECT regexp_replace('foo%B5bar', '%(..)', '\x\\1' , 'g');
>> > 'fooxB5bar'
>>
>> I wanted to replace %BE with the character \xB5 (µ, I think), but of
>> course I am doing this wrong...
>> Is there a simple way t odo this ?
>
> I was simply using a stored function using pl/pythonu with
> urllib (split and unquote). Works flawlessy :-)

Thanks for the tip Tino, but that means installing pythonu.
I'd like to avoid that, since I won't use it for anything
but this function.

--
Arnaud

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