Quick question...

Does anyone know of a utility or script out there that can convert escape characters to and from the Unicode equivalent?

For example:
%c0%af = /
%27 = '
... and vice versa.

I located a PDF that indicates that PERL can do UTF-8 conversions, but I'm a fledgling PERL coder and it's beyond my skill at this time.

A nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

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kud0ze

Here's a simple C procedure which does that. I suppose you could build a simple wrapper around it to make it usefull in a shell. It's only the encode function but the decode shouldn't be to hard if you just reverse the process.

static char* urlencode(const char *instr)
{
register int ipos, bpos; // input str pos., buffer pos.
static unsigned char *str = NULL;
int len = strlen(instr);
int tmp;

//attempt to reuse buffer
if (str == NULL)
str = (unsigned char *) malloc(3 * len + 1);
else
str = (unsigned char *) realloc(str, 3 * len + 1);

//malloc, realloc failed ?
if (errno == ENOMEM)
{
perror("Error allocating memory");
//return ref. to empty string, so's prog wont crash
return "";
}

ipos = bpos = 0;

while (ipos < len)
{
//using inverted logic from original code....
if (!isdigit((int) (instr[ipos]))
&& !isalpha((int) instr[ipos]) && instr[ipos] != '_')
{
tmp = instr[ipos] / 16;
str[bpos++] = '%';
str[bpos++] = ((tmp < 10) ? (tmp + '0') : (tmp + 'A' - 10));
tmp = instr[ipos] % 16;
str[bpos++] = ((tmp < 10) ? (tmp + '0') : (tmp + 'A' - 10));
}
else
{
str[bpos++] = instr[ipos];
}

ipos++;
}

str[bpos] = '\0';

//free extra alloc'ed mem.
tmp = strlen(str);
str = (unsigned char *) realloc(str, tmp + 1);

return (str);
}

Dank je, Mik. I didn't think anyone had an answer =)

Also, I found the following website, for anyone interested. It has functions for URL encoding and decoding, and much, much more.

http://www.network-tools.com/

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kud0ze