Decodes special characters within strings for use with HTTP.

Syntax

HTTP_DECODE( string )

Parameters

Returns

LONG VARCHAR

LONG NVARCHAR

Remarks

This function returns the string argument after replacing all character sequences of the form %nn, where nn is a hexadecimal value, with the character with code nn. In addition, all plus signs (+) are replaced with spaces.

See also

• -xs server option
• SQL Anywhere web services
• HTTP_ENCODE function [HTTP]
• HTTP_HEADER function [HTTP]
• HTTP_VARIABLE function [HTTP]
• NEXT_HTTP_HEADER function [HTTP]
• NEXT_HTTP_VARIABLE function [HTTP]
• Web services functions
• Web services system procedures

Standards and compatibility