GOLF(2gg)

💖 GOLF(2gg) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GOLF(2gg) manual page, Development edition ✨ this one is short, sweet, and lowkey essential — let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

decode-url — (URL-encoding)

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🎯 PURPOSE 🎯

Decode URL-encoded string. that's it, that's the whole job, and it ate 💅

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📜 SYNTAX 📜

decode-url <string> [ input-length <length> ] [ status <status> ]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so decode-url will decode <string> (the kind created by encode-url or other URL-encoding software) and store the result back into <string> — yes, in place, she's not giving you a copy back, she's editing the original 💀

not me about to say the most important thing ever: if you need <string> unchanged, make a copy of it first with copy-string. fr fr. do it BEFORE you run this. i'm serious 🙈

<length> in the input-length clause specifies the number of bytes to decode. if it's omitted or negative, it's the string length of <string> — so like, the whole thing, no cap.

All encoded values (starting with %) are decoded, and + (plus sign) is converted to space. periodt 💖

<status> number (in the status clause) is GG_OKAY if all bytes decoded successfully 🎉 or, in case of an error, it is the index of the byte that could not be decoded (first byte is indexed 0). so if there's an error (for example a hexadecimal value following % is invalid), the decoding stops, and whatever was decoded up to that point is the result. it's giving "we got as far as we got" 😭

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Decode URL-encoded string "str", after which it will hold a decoded string.

decode-url str

look at her go, iconic behavior 👑

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• URL encoding
• decode-url encode-url See all documentation

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and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🦋 this was the GOLF(2gg) page from $VERSION, dated $DATE — go decode something cute, and remember: copy your string first 💜✨