From: Chris Hulan <chris.hulan@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T03:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Convert characters from hex to string

On Feb 29, 1:06 pm, Shandy Nantz <shandyb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I looked around and found some similar postings to my problem but not
> exactly what I was looking for. I have a string that has some hex
> characters intermingled in with a normal string. I need to convert those
> character in their char equivalent. unpack seems not to work. My string
> looks like this:
>
> https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Flogic%3Fss%3D1%26companyname%3DShhhhhhh%26userlogin...
>
> Is there a way to do this? Thanks,
>
> -S
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

FYI
irb(main):003:0> CGI.unescape 'http://www.example.com%2flogic%3fss
%3d1%26companyname%3dshhhhhhh%26userlogin%3dshhhhh%40/'
=> "http://www.example.com/logic?
ss=1&companyname=shhhhhhh&userlogin=shhhhh@/"

cheers