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✨ Catmandu::Fix::uri_decode ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to Catmandu::Fix::uri_decode 💖 this is the Catmandu::Fix little helper that does percent decoding on a URI. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes those ugly %E1%BD%81-looking crumbs and turns them back into actual readable text, like a glow-up but for strings ✨

it lives in the Perl world, in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section (3pm), and honestly? iconic. no cap. 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Catmandu::Fix::uri_decode — percent decode a URI 🦋

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

here's how she eats, fr fr:

    # '3%A9' => 'café'
    uri_decode(place)

    # '%E1%BD%81+%CF%84%E1%BF%B6%CE%BD+%CE%A0%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%83%CF%89%CE%BD+%CE%B2%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%8D%CF%82' => 'ὁ τῶν Πέρσων βασιλεύς'
    uri_decode(title)

so like, you hand her a field name — place, title, whatever — and she decodes the percent-encoded mess sitting in it. 3%A9 becomes café ☕ and yeah she even handles the full ancient-Greek situation, ὁ τῶν Πέρσων βασιλεύς, because she's multilingual and unbothered 💜

that + in there? she's not scared of it. the whole string gets decoded, periodt.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Catmandu::Fix — the whole fix family, the main character energy of the operation 👑
• Catmandu::Fix::uri_encode — her sister, does the exact opposite, encodes instead of decodes 🔄
• URI::Escape — the underlying Perl module doing the actual heavy lifting 🧚

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and that's the page bestie 🫶 written for perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-01-24 — go percent-decode something cute, you got this 💖✨