Thanks everyone -
The good news is I actually (again) don't seem to need it.
Spike, you've highlighted the issue I was thinking of (or drawing blanks to).
When it boils down to it - seems more like you can only guess that the string is URL
encoded.
Interesting though.
Thanks again,
Mark
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Quoting Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think this is a lot more tricky than it looks at first glance.
>
> Consider the following example:
>
> <cfset str = "Hexadecimal coding can be used to convert characters to a
> hexadecimal equivalant. For example, a space can be represented as %20,
> or a + sign can be converted to a %2B.">
>
> <cfif reFindNoCase('%[0-9]{2}',str)>
> <cfoutput>#urlDecode(str)#</cfoutput>
> <cfelse>
> <cfoutput>#str#</cfoutput>
> </cfif>
>
> Although it's a contrived example, it's not beyond the bounds of
> possibility that something similar could appear in a real string.
>
> Spike
>
> Steve Onnis wrote:
>
> > Why worry
> >
> > Just decode it
> >
> > if its encoded it will decode the string. If not it wont hurt it
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > *Vaughan Allan
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:18 PM
> > *To:* CFAussie Mailing List
> > *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: isURLEncoded
> >
> >
> > something like:
> >
> > <CFSCRIPT>
> > function IsURLEncoded(text)
> > {
> > if (REFind("%[0-9]{2}",text)) return true;
> > return false;
> > }
> > </CFSCRIPT>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *Mark M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*
> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 19/11/2003 03:08 PM
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> > To
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> > Subject
> > [cfaussie] isURLEncoded
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > hey all -
> >
> > Anyone know a nifty way to tell if a string is URL Encoded or not?
> >
> > I'm drawing blanks.
> >
> > Just getting some data from an external source, and SOME of it will
> > need to be decoded ,and
> > some won't be, the rules of which are slightly haphazard, so I
> > thought if i could tell if a string
> > was encoded, I could subsequently decode it.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Mark
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