Parsing email + subject URLs from a webpage.

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I am parsing email+subject links from a webpage.
I wanted to know if there is a function which removes the special characters from the subject. As in this example:

jack@abc.com?subject=3%2B%20Year%20CNN%20BBBC%20AAA%20for%20Huge%20Tam
+pa%20SHOE%20Table.%20Co.!!
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I want to convert the special characters "%20" etc.. in this string into regular text.

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Re: Parsing email + subject URLs from a webpage. by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 07, 2002 at 14:21 UTC
`use URI::Escape;` [download] Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Parsing email + subject URLs from a webpage. by Anonymous Monk on Feb 19, 2003 at 12:19 UTC
use unescape	[reply]
Re: Answer: Parsing email + subject URLs from a webpage. by mowgli (Friar) on Feb 21, 2003 at 09:29 UTC
use unescape I'm not sure about what you mean here really, but I think that it might be worth mentioning that `uri_unescape` from `URI::Escape` is useful when you do want to unescape URLs etc. -- mowgli	[reply]

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