http (the transfer protocol of WWW) escapes difficult characters like
this:   '%', followed by the character code in hex
e.g.  +   is encoded as %2B  .

Now I've got a string $val containing zero or more such escaped characters.  
How do I translate them back ?

I've tried

      while($val=~/%(..)/)
          {
          $h=$1;
          $c = pack('c', hex($h));
          $val =~ s/%$h/$c/g;
          };

but surely there must be a better way to do it ?   (A friend told
me he saw a oneline for doing it - but he can't remember where..)

   thanx in advance

     Brigitte

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|http (the transfer protocol of WWW) escapes difficult characters like
|this:   '%', followed by the character code in hex
|e.g.  +   is encoded as %2B  .
|
|Now I've got a string $val containing zero or more such escaped characters.  
|How do I translate them back ?
|
|I've tried [...] but surely there must be a better way to do it ?

This is shorter. I don't know about better:

$_="%4a%75%73%74%20%61%6e%6f%74%68%65%72%20%70%65%72%6c%20%68%61%63%6b%65%72";

s/%(..)/pack('c',hex($1))/ge;

print $_,"\n";

#Tim