Converts escaped characters into their original form.

Synopsis

• unquote_string string

Description

Scans through each character in string for all escaped characters following the format:

%HH

where HH are two hexadecimal digits representing the ASCII value of the character. The escaped character is then converted back to the original character. This is useful for retrieving data embedded in a URL from form-like GET request. The command that creates this character conversion is quote_string.