Re: URL Decoding - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Arnaud Lesauvage
Subject Re: URL Decoding
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Msg-id 456583F8.6040906@freesurf.fr
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In response to Re: URL Decoding  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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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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