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in reply to Re^3: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ?
in thread Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ?

I think that should be:
s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg
In fact, that's pretty much exactly what's in URI::Escape, except that the module also handles scalar v. list context and multiple arguments. Using uri_unescape still seems preferable to me, since the resource overhead of using the module is basically nil and the mnemonic benefit of seeing uri_unescape instead of a regex is considerable.

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Re^5: Can the "#" character be passed via $ENV{QUERY_STRING} ?
by BUU (Prior) on Feb 25, 2005 at 19:38 UTC
    You know, you're completely correct, and that mostly proves your point about using a module. I theoretially knew what the proper code should be, but I wasn't paying attention and wrote something that was broken and didn't even think about it, the module would have been much easier.
      You are both correct. s/%(\d\d)/chr $1/eg will do fine if all you care about are encoded #'s (but then, you might as well use the faster and shorter s/%23/#/g). But if you want to be more general, use what mdillon states.